brainstorm: solve the palestinian israeli conflict

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Well, Sri Lanka solved their terrorism problem in VERY short order:

The Tigers’ collapse began in January, 2009, when they lost the town of Kilinochchi, their de-facto capital. By May, their remaining fighters retreated into the jungle near the coastal town of Mullaittivu, taking along more than three hundred thousand Tamil civilians who were trapped with them. The Sri Lankan Army designated a series of “no-fire zones” and told civilians to assemble there. It then shelled those zones repeatedly, while issuing denials that it was doing so and forbidding journalists access to the area.

A) The world looks the other way (who cares about sri lanka anyway);

B) Horrible bloodbath where 300,000 human shields are collateral damage for a small fraction of fighters;

C) Problem completely solved.

So completely solved, that only two years later Sri Lanka can safely release 1800 Tiger rebels. Without even a single innocent Sri Lankan soldier to exchange for them. Because who's going to be a human shield for them now?

Sri Lanka's government on Friday released nearly 1,800 former Tamil Tiger rebels who had been held since the island nation's civil war ended more than two years ago. The former combatants — among about 11,000 Tamil Tigers who surrendered at the end of the war in May 2009 — were held in military-run rehabilitation centres, where they underwent vocational training. The military says about 1,000 remain in centres.

Sri Lanka has come under pressure from rights groups and other countries to either charge the detainees or release them.

Under pressure from rights groups! Ha! Ha! And now the rights groups think they had an impact! Ha! Ha!

Of course this isn't my proposed solution. It's merely how the world has historically accomplished these things... when no-one is watching.

Hemmed in by the sea, a lagoon, and a hundred thousand government soldiers, the Tigers were all but helpless. On May 16th, the Army commander, General Sarath Fonseka, declared victory. Two days later, the Army announced that the Tiger leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, had been killed. After the carnage, President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government adopted a posture of triumphalism at home and resentment of the outrage it caused abroad. The important thing, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in London said, was that Sri Lanka had ended terrorism, making it the first country in the modern age to have done so.