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STEP FOUR: THE SEPARATION WALL AND THE MOVEMENT OF POPULATIONS
The existing separation wall built by Israel will be maintained integrally during those early stages, which could probably last for several years. The wall will then be moved back gradually towards the Israeli territory, i.e. to the limit of the original Green Line marking the de facto border separating Israel from the West Bank. Priority should be given to stretches of the wall where it separates agricultural land belonging to Palestinian villages along the Green Line and to reinstate territorial contiguity in the West Bank. This will restitute to the Palestinians badly needed economic agricultural resources for their survival.
As soon as this is completed, borders will open between Jordan and the West Bank to allow the Palestinians to travel and trade, subject to the existing bilateral agreements and regulations currently enforced among advanced countries. Similarly, borders between Gaza and Egypt will be opened along the same lines until the Gaza Strip is reconnected to the West Bank as described under Step 5.
No Palestinians will be allowed to cross the border to work in Israel during this stage, but opportunities will be made available for them to work in their own territory, i.e. in the fields reconnected to their original villages, or in small manufacturing industries. Once the borders with Egypt and Jordan are open, Palestinians will also be able to transit through them to work in any other country needing manpower, as is the case for so many other migrant workers around the world. They could always return at any time to a home in Palestine, i.e. Gaza and the West Bank
It is interesting to note that opening the borders is in the interest of the Israeli people too. Relieved of as much tension as possible due to the inhuman Gulag-like conditions under which they live, the Palestinians would have less reason to fire rockets across the border with Israel now that they have hard-to-get jobs to protect outside the Palestinian territories.
STEP FIVE: RECONNECTING THE WEST BANK AND GAZA TO THE REST OF THE REGION
This step shall witness the beginning of initial work to build an underground rail and car tunnel that will connect the West Bank and Gaza, and thus link the two parts of Palestine together without crossing through Israeli territory. This will be like the Chunnel between continental Europe and the British Isles, or like the new underwater metro line linking between the two shores of the Sea of Marmara in the city of Istanbul. The proposed tunnel would also provide the West Bank with an outlet to the Mediterranean and to the Egyptian border, as well as link Gaza with the Arab hinterland east of the Jordan River. It will equally provide Jordan with an access to the Mediterranean.
As a matter of fact, this connecting tunnel would connect Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq back to Egypt and North Africa for the first time since the land route via Palestine was cut following the creation of Israel in 1948. The positive economic repercussions of this project on the economy of Palestine and the adjacent countries including eventually Israel would be enormous.
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