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Title: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Name: MOE City: Ramallah/Al Bireh State: Palestine
The Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization leaderships agree to immediately begin a process that, once completed, will produce two states living side by side, Israel and Palestine, and formulate a document of principles to reach understandings of the type listed below: 1. Israel will end the occupation of the West Bank within an agreed timeframe. The withdrawal and evacuation of settlements will be carried out gradually and in several stages. All evacuated territory will be transferred to the Palestinian Authority, which will impose law and order. The existence of a leadership in the Gaza Strip that is prepared to be part of the peace process will enable Israel to view the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a single entity. 2. A demilitarized Palestinian state will be established, and its borders will be determined on the basis of the 1967 lines. The exact border will reflect security needs, the demographic reality, and humanitarian conditions. Territory will be exchanged on a 1:1 ratio in order to retain the settlement blocks in Israeli hands, and ensure Palestine`s territorial continuity as well as the possibility of its economic development. 3. Jerusalem will be two capitals, of the State of Israel and the State of Palestine. The Jewish neighborhoods shall be under Israeli sovereignty and the Arab neighborhoods shall be under Palestinian sovereignty. The two municipal authorities will cooperate in order to allow quality of life for all its residents. 4. Special arrangements will be implemented in order to ensure free access to all holy places for the members of the various religious. A special regime will be established in order to preserve the attachment of both nations to the holy sites within Jerusalem`s Old City. 5. Palestine will be recognized as the national home of the Palestinian people and Israel will be recognized as the national home of the Jewish people. 6. A just and agreed solution to the Palestinian refugee problem will be formulated, through consideration for and recognition of the suffering that has been caused them, as well as the understanding that the realization of self-determination represents the principle part of the solution. 7. Both sides will declare their readiness to end the conflict and will act to increase public support on both sides for this agreement as much as possible. The sides will also act, to the best of their abilities, together and individually, against all forms of violence and terror directed from the territory of one state upon its neighbor.