"New Israel" , a not so modest proposal

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108. Let me interject an idea here. Bet TPTB in 1947-48 wish they could do a "mulligan" (a re-do),...

and the new nation would've had one of its founding tenets be our First Amendment — freedom of religion, the press, speech, assembly and the right to redress grievances — for everyone.

There would've been problems to work out but Arabs and Jews had been living there for millennia amongst each other. Seems to me the big problem was the "for Jews only" aspect of the founding. Including the First Amendment as a tenet of the new state would've made it more palatable to the Arabs there.

It couldn't be worst than what has resulted over the decades since Israel was founded, including this worst ever tragedy now.

Unfortunately mulligans don't happen in history or geopolitics. Too bad. We're stuck now with innocents on both sides suffering, but with those in charge of policy and what's done on both sides determined not to yield an inch and work out a two-state solution.