Canada unveils proposal to resolve conflict over Jerusalem

[SecularMotion]

Source: Haaretz.com

Canada has formally unveiled a proposal to resolve the conflict over the future of Jerusalem's Old City, the Montreal Gazette reported on Saturday.

The proposal, which was released after seven years of research and planning, calls for a "special regime" comprising Israeli and Palestinian officials headed by "an effective and empowered third-party" commissioner to oversee a 0.9-square-kilometer district that contains the city's contested Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites.

The proposal was funded by the Canadian government but initiated by University of Windsor, with a number of former top Canadian and American diplomats, who helped craft the plan that is outlined in a 144-page report, the Gazette reported.

Governance and security arrangements are detailed in the report, which describes the Old City as "a microcosm" of the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that it encompasses "political, demographic, security, economic, social, religious, territorial and environmental elements."

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/canada-unveils-proposal-to-resolve-conflict-over-jerusalem-1.289044

[marshall]

1. Use some of the Quebec ideas

They've had to deal with their own problems through the year.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. I like Tom Clancy's approach better from his book the Sum of All Fears

Open city
Run by the three dominant religious leaders (Jewish/Muslim/Xtian)
Multinational law enforcement

[Heywood J]

3. That damned city has been the cause of more warfare, intolerance,

and killing than anything else in 6,000 years. Encase it in solid glass, so it's visible for all time as a monument to human stupidity and barbarism.