Dear Clients and Friends,
International conflicts provide a highly effective laboratory to extract profound lessons about negotiation and dispute resolution that can be successfully applied to corporate, organizational and individual negotiations. With that in mind, below is my opinion piece published in the Jerusalem Post which presents a new approach to the old Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.
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With Best Wishes,
Raphael
Despite many efforts at resolving the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, there have never been any comprehensive solutions proposed that were acceptable to all sides.
That however, does not absolve us from continuously searching for potential solutions, because leadership changes; civilian influence changes; geopolitics change and generations change, and with those changes come new perceptions, perspectives, paradigms and priorities that can drive serious consideration of solutions today that were unacceptable yesterday.
With these changes, occasionally entirely new and different ideas emerge, which can potentially advance productive and purposeful talks. It is one such idea that I humbly propose in this article in the hope that it might be a foundation upon which to build further.
A brief history about the ubiquitous one-state and two-state solutions is a good place to start.