The proposal is probably unworkable for other reasons (paying for resettlement is all well and fine, but 1) people would have to be willing to settle elsewhere, and 2) you'd have to find states willing to take the resettled people, neither of which is a trivial obstacle), but for the life of me I can't figure out where the bantustans come in.

I can't figure out why rdf seems to consider a reversion to the pre-67 Egyptian and Jordanian borders preferable to a Palestinian state, though. For one thing, neither Egypt nor Jordan currently want that, for a variety of mostly excellent reasons.

That said, it's not obvious that a Gaza exclave to a Palestinian state - let alone a sovereign state in Gaza - is sustainable, and I think that those of us who advocate a two-state solution would be wise to pay some thought to the fact that Gaza runs a serious risk of becoming a Kaliningrad writ small.

- Jake

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