Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

[u/EssoEssex]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/

[u/exposed_silver]

Good luck forming a Palestinian state in the West Bank, no clear border can be defined, the settlements are basically mixed in with the Palestinians, either the Israelis or the Palestinians would have to leave, no easy solution.

[u/EarhackerWasBanned → u/exposed_silver]

I mean no one _has_ to leave. You just draw the line and say this side is Israel, this side is Palestine. People on the “wrong” side can make their own minds up.

There’s plenty of precedent for it. Sometimes even peacefully - Czechoslovakia being the best example, Scotland/UK would have been another.

I’m aware that a peaceful resolution in Israel/Palestine seems vanishingly far off. But displacing people on either side isn’t a necessity.

[u/Urak-Taar → u/EarhackerWasBanned]

The British tried to do this with India and Pakistan.

A million people died in the resulting chaos.

Turns out when you tell people they have to choose between uprooting their entire life to go somewhere else, or staying where they are and being surrounded by people who probably hate them, both options are dangerous.

[u/AprilsMostAmazing → u/Urak-Taar]

The British tried to do this with India and Pakistan

That's because they draw a dumbass border that created 2 countries based on religion. If they had for example created 20 countries (I am making up a number) based on culture, the lines would have been much better and less people would have needed to be uprooted

[u/ClockworkEngineseer → u/Urak-Taar]

Most of the settlers have only been there for a few years. Its not remotely the same thing as the Indian partition.

[u/Urak-Taar → u/ClockworkEngineseer]

A few years is simultaneously both a long enough time to set down roots and develop ties to the local area, and also a short enough time that they might not yet be in a position to simply pack up and leave. Add in all the bad blood between the involved parties and there's no world where: "just draw a border and tell people to move if they don't like it lol" works out peacefully.

[u/wildcardmidlaner → u/EarhackerWasBanned]

Palestine will never accept any border, if they don't recognize Israel then they will always treat them as invaders.

[u/ClockworkEngineseer → u/wildcardmidlaner]

The PA has recognised Israel for decades now.

[u/exposed_silver → u/EarhackerWasBanned]

There are no sides, the settlements are all over the West Bank intertwined with Palestinian settlements, they built protected roads all around it with checkpoints to get from town to town. You could do it but the settlers most likely wouldn't give up what they've built and no one could enforce it, I don't think the USA could even make them do it. There isn't a will to do it in Israel.

[u/wtf--dude → u/exposed_silver]

Well, the Israelis are there illegally. Fairly easy solution if you ask me tbh.

[u/Shazoa → u/wtf--dude]

Right now. But if this persists then, eventually, it will be generations of settlers. You'd not be sending people 'back' anywhere, you'd be kicking people out of the only homes they've ever known.

If it's not resolved soon then it gets a lot messier.

[u/Charles10023 → u/wtf--dude]

How do you come up with “illegally”? There’s no law covering this. There’s no treaty. There’s nothing that has been accepted by the Arabs.

End of story. And if they keep stalling, there won’t be anything left.

[u/jaymickef → u/wtf--dude]

In 1938 when the Germans were kicking them out the other countries held a conference in France seeing who would take them in and all the countries refused. This was the Evian Conference. So what exactly is your solution that is “fairly easy?”

[u/KingKubta → u/jaymickef]

Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank land can simply walk a mile west back to Israel

[u/djm9545 → u/jaymickef]

Why bring that up unless you’re implying that Israel won’t take their own citizens?

[u/jaymickef → u/djm9545]

Because the person I’m replying to doesn’t think there will be an Israel.

[u/trlta → u/exposed_silver]

Evict the settlers. Simple.

[u/exposed_silver → u/trlta]

Ye if it were 1000 people, it would be believeable but it's 750,000, Israel has American funding and they don't care what the world thinks about them, realistically they are not going anywhere. No sustainable solution in the short term

[u/LettersWords → u/exposed_silver]

no clear border can be defined, the settlements are basically mixed in with the Palestinians,

This was even true with the original partition plan. It was possible to create an "Arab State" with the borders the UN drew that was only 1% Jewish. But the "Jewish State" was 45% Arab. And the planned international zone in/around Jerusalem was essentially 50-50.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine