“I may be in the minority here, but I think there should be an independent Palestinian state. But nobody is going to give it to then.”
Put it in Sinai. Have the entire world contribute to a new Palestinian homeland. The new Palestine will run solely on alternative energy. Buildings, factories, homes, everything. After 10 years they can have a regional airport. We can move the UN there as new Palestine will be a symbol of how the world can work together despite their differences.
At the first UN meeting, nuke the place from orbit, just to be sure.
That punchline hurt. LOL
There have been serious proposals along those lines in the past. One interesting thing, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been in a low grade diplomatic dispute over ownership of some small Red Sea Islands. Recently Egypt agreed to relinquish their claims in return for a couple billion in Saudi cash. I mention this as it shows possibility for sovereign flexibility.
But even still, I don’t see Egypt really going for it. The proposals I read involved 99 year lease to land that would expand Gaza strip. And to be sure, Gaza is one of the most dense population areas on earth. One of their problems is their political leadership is Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood - enemies of Egypt.
But your vision is 100% spot on. The possibilities and potential are incredible. They have access to massive natural gas, a seaport, beautiful topography. How much money goes to Italy and Greece and France and even Israel by developing their coast lines for tourism and enterprise? None of these other countries have any vision at all. Well Lebanon did, until Arafat and the PLO showed up.
It would be a massive undertaking - literally building a country from scratch, housing and infrastructure for a couple million people. Some advantages would be it would all be built from scratch so it would be state of the art, well planned by city planners to enable trade and travel and traffic etc. Unfortunately this is almost impossible unless and until the Palestinian people themselves unite in a common vision of peace and prosperity. To this day they remain tribal and clannish, factional, with many armed militias (some are more ruthless against other Arabs than they are to Israelis) and a corrupt, weak, inept government.
Like I said which you quoted.... “nobody is going to give it to them”. They have to do it themselves. You are right they would have the support of the entire world. Clinton is said to have offered Arafat $30 billion in aid if he signed the final Oslo peace draft. Arafat refused. But this shows the world is willing to help them to help themselves.