Love your neighbour as yourself. I am the LORD.

Exodus 22:21
“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

Leviticus 19:18
“‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Numbers 10:32
If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

Deuteronomy 10:19
And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 23:7
Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.

Psalm 146:9
The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

Joint-State Solution Principles

The Joint-State Solution (“JSS”) to the Israel-Palestine problem was mooted several months ago.

The JSS is pragmatic and do-able, yet there would be certain fundamental prerequisites for it to take effect in the current dispensation.

1. Israeli arrogance would need to be mitigated, perhaps by the succession of current Israeli leaders by a more humane generation, a generation rooted in the realisation of perpetrated cruelties and impossibly inhumane social actions like the cantonisation and imprisonment of West Bank inhabitants. So no more being horrible to the Arabs! The Jews are going to have to suck it up and treat the Arabs like brothers – it is even Biblical: Leviticus 19:34.
2. The Palestinians would need to give de facto recognition of Israel as a state, as that same Israel would constitutionally also become Palestine. So no more intending to tear down the Israeli state or killing all the Jews!

Related articles

• Water under the bridge: how the Oslo agreement robbed the Palestinians (guardian.co.uk)
• Israel annexing Palestine – Joint-State preferred (israel-palestine.net)
• Israel’s Lieberman says Palestinian peace accord impossible (news.yahoo.com)
• Palestinian textbooks erase Israel. Harriet Sherwood erases moral distinctions. (cifwatch.com)
• Palestinian Incitement Is Not Comparable to Israeli Textbooks (algemeiner.com)
• Israel signs off on 346 new West Bank settler homes (dailystar.com.lb)
• Israel’s Lieberman scoffs at Palestinian deal (rinf.com)
• US: Obama regional agenda ‘urgent’ on Israel visit (cnsnews.com)
• Farewell BDS (deliberation.info)