The basis of a confederation solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be the right for Israelis and Palestinians to live in the other state as permanent residents, which has been the status for East Jerusalemites since 1967. Accordingly, persistent issues with their situation but also increasingly positive coexistence in Jerusalem should ultimately encourage the feasibility of a confederation.
Israel is fortunate that in this time of crisis the US president is Joe Biden. Of Irish-Catholic background, as a child Biden learned of Hitler’s persecution and mass murder of Jews during World War II. Biden became a self-confessed “gentile”, or non-Jewish, Zionist, and has repeatedly proclaimed his attachment to Israel. During his decades-long career in politics as a senator