"New Israel" , a not so modest proposal

[haele]

180. Doesn't really matter in the long run.

Sorry for sounding nihilistic, but climate change is already affecting the Mediterranean region.
The coastal regions, especially Gaza, will be underwater within 50 years, especially since the Middle Eastern region is still dependent on fossil fuels for wealth.
All those millions of people will be climate refugees, trying to move into the more mountainous regions, which are growing dryer, seeking fresh water, secure housing - and new ways to make a living. They will be in direct competition with the existing residents, especially the farmers, which will make tribal clashes worse.
The Oil Oligarchs and Warlords/Religious leaders in the entire region are still ignoring climate change in their political bickering over oil profits and religious/tribal supremacy.
The 'Arab Spring' has been linked to climate change, as rural family farms and the small businesses they collapsed due to drought and increasingly large numbers of men couldn't find jobs in their family areas and relocated to the cities looking for work that wasn't there.
The cultures in those regions practice serious historical social stratification, these men from the rural areas weren't being granted opportunities to improve themselves due to the familial based networks that would regularly and blindly employ an incompetent nephew over a qualified stranger applying the same job. And this is happening all over the Mediterranean, not just in the Arab world.
It's a return to tribalism in the face of oncoming calamity. And humans all over are subject to squabbling over scarce resources, especially when refugees start entering a the region looking for a new home.

Haele