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The Palestinian Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Larry W. Roeder Jr. ,
Franklin C. Marcus  and
Henry S. Sizer
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People seeking a settlement of the Palestinian question have focused on several options during the past few years. These proposals cover a wide range of choices from annexation by Israel of the West Bank and Gaza, to a Palestinian semiautonomy in the same territories, to some kind of union with Jordan. However, the only viable proposal is an arrangement that satisfies the population most directly involved; i.e., the Palestinians. And they will be satisfied with nothing less than true independence from both Israel and Jordan for the territories occupied by Israel since 1967. Just as other “peoples” have done before them, the Palestinians today are struggling for one thing above all else: the powerful idea of “self-determination” or “sovereignty.” In the twentieth century that means an independent state.

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Worldview , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , June 1982 , pp. 7 - 9
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1982

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The discussion papers reproduced here were prepared for the State Department's Open Forum Journal (Spring. 1982) and have been pronounced "unclassified." Larry W. Roeder. Jr., currently serving in the Office of East-West Trade of the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, was born in Beirut and has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East. He serves as Chairman of Open Forum s Palestinian-Israeli Working Group. Franklin C. Marcus studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before joining the Foreign Service. He has served in the bureaus of International Organization Affairs, Intelligence and Research, and Politico-Military Affairs. Henry S. Sizer has spent most of his Foreign Service career working on Middle Eastern affairs and has served in Lebanon,'Syria, Tunisia, North Yemen, and Oman. He is at present working on Middle Eastern issues in the U.N. political affairs office, Bureau of International Organization Affairs.

* The legislative branch might take a bicameral form. The lower house would have representatives elected by popular vote. The upper house would have an equal number of Palestinians and Israelis.

** In addition to a mayor, it may be advisable to have a city manager selected from the International Association of City Managers. Such a person, especially if neither Israeli nor Palestinian, could be more effective.