Jared Kushner reportedly has galaxy-brain level solution to Middle East peace

[GoTfan]

Because the Saudis will be totally cool with giving up land.

[GoTfan]

What on earth is this proposal?

It's like the Alsace-Lorraine mess post-WW1. Seriously, this kind of mix and match land exchange only leads to further grievances as people find themselves dropped in new countries.

Look at Europe post WW1, post WW2. Look at basically any territory the British Empire ceded back to local control. Look at the India-Pakistan border, with its enclaves, and enclaves within enclaves.

Borders are incredibly emotive, and whenever someone (usually a drunk British aristocrat) draws new lines on a map to curry political favour, people divide into new factions, and lives are lost.

The idea of dragging countries in the Middle-East, perhaps the most volatile region on earth, into a border dispute is unfathomably nerve-wracking.

Wasn't it a Western plan that screwed up the Middle East in the first place?

[GoTfan]

What on earth is this proposal?

It's like the Alsace-Lorraine mess post-WW1. Seriously, this kind of mix and match land exchange only leads to further grievances as people find themselves dropped in new countries.

Look at Europe post WW1, post WW2. Look at basically any territory the British Empire ceded back to local control. Look at the India-Pakistan border, with its enclaves, and enclaves within enclaves.

Borders are incredibly emotive, and whenever someone (usually a drunk British aristocrat) draws new lines on a map to curry political favour, people divide into new factions, and lives are lost.

The idea of dragging countries in the Middle-East, perhaps the most volatile region on earth, into a border dispute is unfathomably nerve-wracking.

Wasn't it a Western plan that screwed up the Middle East in the first place?

That was the Sykes-Picot agreement where the British and the French split up the middle east into spheres of influence after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. That agreement ignored ethnic lines and created a lot of conflict in that region.

That's the one.

God, the West has a brilliant track record in the ME.