Mr. President: The Israeli settlements are legal

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11. To me Israel has a few choices

1) unilaterally withdraw from the WB, with the exception of Jerusalem, take all the settlers with them and say "here you go PA, govern your land". Build whatever the want between that territory and Israel, and control who is allowed in to Israel.
2) Annex all of the West Bank, give everyone there full Israeli citizenship.
3) Status quo.
4) Negotiate at any cost with the PA for an agreement.
5) actually negotiate with the PA, and mean it.

Problems with each
1) the right wing, especially Jewish Home, yisrael beiteinu, would be up in arms over this. But if a moderate government can be formed, they probably can be silenced. It would require Zionist Union, Kulanu, Meretz, Yesh Atid to run one united front. Even then might need help from some of the Arab parties to form a coalition and implement this plan.
2) A one state solution, giving all Arabs in the WB Israeli citizenship, will likely mean that Israel becomes a majority Arab state in the near future.
3) Untenable. The situation there is not good and is bad politically for Israel from an international viewpoint
4) not going to happen. PA wants full RoR (which would destroy Israel as we know it)
5) the most likely option. Would require new leadership in Israel (probably from a grand coalition that excludes the religious and far right wing parties, but includes Zionist Union, Likud, Kulanu, Yesh Atid, and possibly, Meretz. It would also require Abbas to be gone, as he is corrupt and does not really desire peace as it would kill his stealing of money for his own use from the PA (just like Arafat before him). An eventual peace plan will require Israel withdrawing from 90% of the WB, with the exception of Jerusalem, and making sure that the WB state of Palestine is a continuous region, with no enclaves of Israeli power. Ideally, settlers livign there would stay, under Palestinian rule, or be compensated monetarily to leave and go back to Israel. RoR for Palestinians would be handled with allowing a token number of Palestinians into israel, (read few thousand), rest compensated monetarily. Jews thrown out of Arab countries would also be compensated. Jerusalem would remain in Israeli hands (with the Temple mount controlled by Islamic authorities). Under no plan was Jerusalem supposed to be a part of Palestine, I see no reason this should change.