A Modest Proposal
Offer Israel New Jersey
The Capital Times, January 7, 2009
Dear Editor:
We need a New Israel.
Over 60 years, peace proposals made in the Israel-Palestine conflict have been rejected by one side or the other. What is needed now is a whole new start. I propose that the people of Israel be given a whole new land in a different part of the world.
Now, with new fighting in the Mideast, would be a good time to correct a mistaken decision by the United Nations and the allies, the partitioning of Palestine. After World War II, instead of giving the survivors of the Holocaust a small piece of arid land in the Mideast without oil, and with unfriendly neighbors, the world’s leaders should have given the suffering Jewish people a land of more value. I suggest now the state of New Jersey.
In 1948, many U.S. citizens of New Jersey would have been willing to move to nearby states or happy to stay to build a vibrant new country with a strong economy and rich cultural heritage.
With the current economic downturn in the U.S., the relocation of Israel to New Jersey would provide a needed strong economic stimulus to the entire nearby East Coast area.
Just think seriously about this, and I am sure you will agree this would be a plan with benefits for everyone.
Kenneth Coffeen
Madison
