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Berlin equals Judea and Samaria?

It occurred to me that it is possible to perform a thought experiment where Berlin 1958-1963 is compared with Judea and Samaria of today.

Judea and Samaria is inhabitated with Jews (West Berliners) and Palestinians (East Berliners). The Soviet Union is the Arab world and Israel is of course West Germany. There is at least one problem with the model and that is that the Palestinians don't speak Hebrew.

After the Berlin crisis, West Berlin was stuck without interference for 26 years before the wall came down 1989. Netanyahu speak about an economic development that would transform the area to equilibrate it which would be consistent with this time-frame.

It would be a one-state two people solution. Reading in Der Spiegel that there are East Germans that want communism back. Maybe Germany was a one-state two people solution as well?

This solution would demand equality between Jews and Palestinians to bring it out from accusations of an apartheid system, which makes it less probable but still possible.

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