Snark is always good. no issues on that.

I think the number is well above 1%. but 1% is sufficient. What I am talking about is a 1% who will dedicate their lives to finding a method to inflict colossal harm in order to kill as many as possible.

With modern technology all it takes is a handful of guys to fly a plane into a building, or buy a dirty bomb, or spread anthrax etc.

** NO ** strong country on earth will suffer an unopposed 1% somewhere conspiring to destroy them. They will DEMAND the 1% be vigorously monitored and defeated. This is just a law of human nature and of modern technology.

So we can drop any discussion of the percent, and simply say that the only way Israel will cede any security authority to the Palestinians is if they are at least as competent in blocking would-be attackers.

Its simple logic, right?

I do agree what I propose amounts to more of the same in the sense that we don't have a free state. Still if an enclave was notably more prosperous then the rest, wouldn't more Palestinians want in?

wouldn't they? And wouldn't they be motivated to keep the peace in order to keep their enclave?

And wouldn't such an enclave represent a massive step towards personal / pragmatic freedom?

Think about the US protectorate Guam. In many ways they are in exactly this situation now. They have alot of internal freedoms, but they are not a free nation at all. Still to the everyday person living there, I think the bigger question is how are the jobs there, what is the life like?

I think the same would become true (over decades) in such a protectorate of Israel.

but Trump's plan also resolves the issue. I think in a way that is WORSE for the Palestinians than mine, but it is easier to implement. Eventually I think they would eventually/gradually become their own nation if they could loose the intuition that Israel land is (still) theirs.

If they are dispersed across Arab nations, they will never have a home.