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I had no great foresight, sadly. My point was more that the desired Israeli solution to the conflict, ultimately, is to place the Palestinians under the care of some allied-ish government willing to mete out whatever necessary justice to keep the peace. The ideal would be to split the Palestinian Territories into governates or ‘Emirates’ ruled as de facto authoritarian police states by another Muslim country, perhaps Saudi Arabia or maybe even somewhere further afield, with the support of Israeli intelligence to quickly neutralize any threats. In exchange the government in question might be paid some amount of money and allowed the prestige of running Al Aqsa. The global Muslim community wouldn’t (and doesn’t) care much if other Arabs were being nasty to the Palestinians, which would lower tensions all around.
What if they were to force them on a non-allied government? If completely unconstrained by world opinion/sanctions, Israel might do something like force march the entire population of Gaza into Lebanon and then just annex Gaza. It's not like there's much Lebanon/Hezbollah could do to stop it.
To be fair, I don't think the current government is capable of human rights abuses on that scale despite what its detractors might say. But after a few more iterations of the cycles of violence, who knows. Not to mention the fact that Israel's government is going to be increasingly fundamentalist as the ultra-orthodox become an ever larger segment of the population.
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There is no allied-ish government, because the Palestinians have antagonized every possibility. The other Arab governments are happy for them to be a weapon against Israel, but they sure as hell don't want responsibility for them. Iran wants them even less.
Does it have to be Arab? I mean the British were in Palestine for decades. And so if anyone could take on the challenge, why not King Charles?
I'm pretty sure the British are done with the colonial game, which is too bad as they were one of the better players.
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