Bibi, Arafat, and Philip Jose Farmer

ziggy on 2002-11-12T20:39:28

The new government's first order of business would be to expel Arafat.

With platforms (and pronouncements) like these, the only viable solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to convert the region into a small-scale Dayworld. (And even that might not solve the situation.)

Dayworld

waltman on 2002-11-12T23:10:14

OK, so we give the Muslims Friday, the Jews Saturday, and the Christians Sunday. How do we divy up the rest of the week?

Re:Dayworld

ziggy on 2002-11-13T14:02:08
Tourists? Bahai?

The Khekh Archipelago

TorgoX on 2002-11-13T08:45:31

Everyone seems to think that the solutions are to be found in some combination of 1) making the benighted locals get along, via some application of "peace process" and/or obligatory mass sedation, or 2) ethnically cleasing things, so that there will be nice homogenous zones where people can hole up and pretend that the other people don't exist (while remaining armed to the teeth, just in case they do exist).

But clearly the appropriate solution is terraforming.

I have toyed with the idea of filling in the entire eastern Mediterranean, upto and including Crete, and turning it into a dense network of fjords and rolling hills.

But I now think that the way to go is to turn it all into a network of Polynesian islands. Lagoons, coconut trees, breadfruit, and sweet potatoes, the works. Cannibalism optional.

There may be some minor inconvenience as a giant space L.A.S.E.R. is used for turning everything from Crete to Amman to Sinai into a steaming glowing bubbling lava-field. But, well, these things happen.