1) The notion that all communities value economic opportunities over other considerations.

2) Avoiding any discussion of the role Islam plays in the decision-making, attitudes and actions of most Palestinian Arabs.

3) Assuming that Muslims approach problems looking for win-win rather than zero-sum solutions, meaning a solution that advances the interests of both sides would bring Israel peace and security.

4) Not understand the honor-shame paradigm in Muslim Arab family, tribal and community life.

If I thought this plan would work, I would support it. While individual Arabs would gladly take the opportunity to advance themselves economically through emigrating to the West or surreptitiously enriching themselves at the expense of their neighbors, there is no way they would participate in an infidel-Jewish plan to make Israel safer.

The Palestinian Arabs are frontline soldiers in the jihad to destroy Israel as well as a key propaganda tool in the worldwide jihad against all infidels. That is their role, and it would bring shame on themselves, their family and their people to leave any part of Palestine as part of this plan. Anyone seen taking part would be considered an infidel and a collaborator and put both himself and his family in danger of being killed. There is a good chance that person would be killed by his own family for bring shame on the family. This is quite different than going to the Gulf for "temporary" employment or the US to pursue "educational opportunities."

I can't see why Jordan or any Arab country would participate in this plan. The cities built for the Palestinians would find themselves under attack from every terrorist group in the Middle East. Jordan would know that it would be importing a fifth column while enraging Islamists against their regime. Who is going to protect these new communities in Jordan from Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah?

#5. In 1922 the population of Palestine consisted of approximately 589,200 Muslims, 83,800 Jews, 71,500 Christians and 7,600 others (1922 census. However, this area gradually saw a large influx of Jewish immigrants (most of whom were fleeing the increasing persecution in Europe). This immigration and accompanying call for a Jewish state in Palestine drew violent opposition from local Arabs, in part because of Zionism's stated goal of a Jewish state, which many Arabs believed would require the subjugation or removal of the existing non-Jewish population.

On 29 November 1947 the United Nations General Assembly approved a plan, UN General Assembly Resolution 181, to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict by partitioning Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Each state would comprise three major sections, linked by extraterritorial crossroads; the Arab state would also have an enclave at Jaffa. With about 32% of the population, the Jews would get 56% of the territory, an area that then contained 499,000 Jews and 438,000 Palestinians, though this included the inhospitable Negev Desert in the south. The Palestinians would get 42% of the land, which then had a population of 818,000 Palestinians and 10,000 Jews. In consideration of its religious significance, the Jerusalem area, including Bethlehem, with 100,000 Jews and an equal number of Palestinians, was to become a Corpus Separatum, to be administered by the UN

In all the furor that has been created in Israel and the world Jewish community over the suggestion by certain "radical" Jews that Israeli Arabs be transferred from the country, there appears to be forgotten the fact that such an action would only be the second part of an ultimate exchange of populations.

The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid. It is worth while to look at the record before we dismiss the concept of the transfer of Arabs from Israel.

A total of some 750,000 Jews fled Arab lands since 1948. Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 61 years ago.

Today the Palestinian population worldwide is estimated to be 10.1 million, with more than half (approximately 5.2 million) living in the diaspora. Today, approximately 5.2 million Palestinians are living in exile (Assimilated in host countries) in many parts of the world. Little statistical data is available, however, about this large diaspora, because no comprehensive census has ever been conducted among them.

Most diaspora Palestinians, moreover, do not carry personal documents that identify them as Palestinians. An initiative by the United Nations in 1982 to issue identification cards to all 1948 and 1967 Palestinian refugees and their descendantsvii failed due to lack of co-operation by host states. In North America and Europe, Palestinian asylum-seekers often "disappear," because they tend to be subsumed under general categories of "stateless" persons or are registered according to their place of birth or the host country that issued their travel documents.

The case of the Palestinian diaspora in Central and South America is special due to the early onset of its formation and its particular demographic composition. Palestinian immigrants to this region were predominantly members of Christian communities who left Palestine during Ottoman rule, mostly from towns and villages in the central West Bank, such as Ramallah, Bethlehem, Beit Sahour, and Beit Jala. Today, large Palestinian communities exist in Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, Honduras, and Peru. In Peru, both candidates for the March 2004 presidential elections were descendants of Palestinians who had emigrated from Bethlehem in 1912 and 1914 respectively.

Palestinian diaspora communities in Australia, Europe, and North America are much younger. Most Palestinians in Europe and the United States, for example, arrived from Arab Gulf states and Lebanon, and some from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many Palestinians entered these countries as students and visitors but stayed on and joined the diaspora there.

Add the Arabs willing to emigrate today, that would leave a small number who really wish to say and there are other methods to encourage them to leave but one way or another they will have to go: Either them or us!!!!!