What would be your ideal solution to the Israel/Palestine issue?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The right of return neatly demonstrates the problem with 'ideal solutions': on the one hand it is perfectly reasonable to ask for people who were expelled or fled from their homes to be able to return to them (a textbook impossible promise it may well be - and actually a very unusual one to make to refugees - but the trouble is it was made) but on the other... even if you look at only the practicalities and ignore all other arguments against it (many of which are also, as it happens, perfectly reasonable), it seems entirely unworkable in the wider context of an 'ideal solution'. Neither fact cancels out the other.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The difference is that the Germans were relocating to a country that was more prosperous and developed than the one they left

I hate to be a pedant (LIE) but actually they were mostly leaving parts of Germany that had ceased to be parts of any Germany - including many areas that were once very prosperous and very developed indeed (e.g. Breslau, Königsberg...) - and were relocated to the new West Germany. The exception would be the Sudeten Germans, but then the German parts of Bohemia were also very developed and quite prosperous.

Not that this really has any bearing on the subject of this thread.

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Yes, this remains a huge problem (and one that would not be solved by the relocation of the refugee slums to the sites of former villages: slums they would remain). Any ideas?