Lasting peace for Israel.

Lasting peace is possible.  To motivate a people to make a preemptive strike those people must first feel they have been wronged.  Three large groups lay claim to the Holy land and to varying degrees feel slighted or wronged that another group possess it.  I propose to remove this basis for continuing the struggle. I propose that the Israeli government acting in good faith carve out a tract of land encompassing all religious sites in Jerusalem of significant interest to the Christians, Muslims, and Jews. I propose the ownership of this tract be ceded to a neutral party. 

This neutral party will provide access to all who come in peace and unarmed.  The U.N. may superficially seem the logical choice to both own and secure this area.  The U.N. is too political for long-term success.  The U.N. at different times has been friend and foe to the interested parties.  The highest ranks in the U.N. have proven not once but many times to be corruptible.  The U.N. should not be part or party to any solution.

There is only one nation that has demonstrated neutrality.  There is only one nation that has preformed this type of service before and continues to do so today.  I propose that the Swiss be given ownership of the holy sites to hold in trust for humankind.  There should be established a point of entry and exit in Israel and a corridor for Swiss operated busses to enter from Jordan and convey people safely to and from Jerusalem.

For the balance of modern day Jerusalem that is not to be included in the partitioned area, a new name should be chosen.  No official maps should indicate an area as Jerusalem other than the area ceded to the Swiss.

Since the treaty of Versailles, the Swiss have provided security for the Vatican City.  For over a century the Swiss have demonstrated neither a desire for territorial expansion nor for military conquest.