Thank you, Anthony, for this reasoned proposal for a lasting peace in Palestine. At the end of my autobiographical book Fugitive Dreams, I come to a similar conclusion that forgiveness and reconciliation are necessary ingredients. I attribute the collapse of past peace proposals to their failure to account for the effects on the personal lives of people. Any peace agreement has to put people first, above ideology.

I wrote:

“Peace happens when the ordinary human being is deemed as worthy as the kings and ideologies now holding sway.”

https://medium.com/@ramsey-hanhan/fugitive-dreams-my-personal-reflections-on-palestine-b11ec648a4b1

And:

"Deferring the present is precisely the trouble with the Oslo Accords. Oslo as an Interim agreement, “interim” meaning against living in the present. Oslo’s five-year “interim phase” is now nearing thirty. It was meant to be temporary, ephemeral, dangling a Palestinian state, but subject to negotiations – not quite there yet. The Oslo Accords had plenty of flaws, but the central one was in that very word “interim”: Oslo showed no respect for people’s right to live their lives. Every Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza was expected to put up with this transience, constantly learning new ways to move across the multiplying borders, constantly paying attention to the news in case unpredictable events impacted their lives, all the while unable to plan a month ahead. The promise of “peace” lured many to place their lives on hold, “until the interim phase is over,” an event never really meant to happen."