The Northern Ireland peace – which is, after all, a single-state solution – isn’t likely to work in Israel/Palestine. I’d look for something more like the Annan plan for Cyprus or maybe like the Alternative Palestinian Agenda: two autonomous states with the right to define their own citizenship, a very limited right of return, a binational overlay to aid in dispute resolution, and membership in the EU or an equivalent regional organization to make sure everyone behaves. The only thing I’d really add to the Annan formula is that each state should keep its own army, Bosnia-style, for the time being. There isn’t enough trust to make it work otherwise.

It’s the idea of peace between peoples with historic hatreds that, I hope, although more despairingly every year, could be imported from Northern Ireland.

Oh. I thought it referred to Topo Gigio. ;-}

Will Harry’s invite Marzel to post an article in response?

Or, like the Guardian, does it believe only the left to have the right to (politically-correct) comment?

[N.B. I holdno brief for Marzel but find this article too one-sided and Guardian-like.]

Just a question, Alex: were you at the counterprotest in Jaffa last year when 1000 Arabs from all over the country marched through the city chanting: “We’ll redeem you, Jaffa, with spirit and blood” and holding Palestinian flags? Don’t you think that was similar to this?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969634.html

About Northern Ireland peace agreement being a model for Israeli-Palestinian peace. It is possible, as long as Israel & Palestine do not end up being ruled by political & religious extremists as happen to the Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland. That would not make a stable ground for lasting peace in Israel & Palestine even less likely than the current situation in Ulster is.