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Citizenship Peace Plan
Proposed by Michael Sinclair Sanders

In 2001 Michael Sinclair Sanders (b. 1939) authored a Peace Plan involving a completely new paradigm which was endorsed by such experts as Senator George Mitchell and Nadim Shehadi of the British Think Tank, Chatham House. Many prominent Israeli and Palestinian politicians and former diplomats now favour the plan including a member of Prime Minister Olmert’s cabinet, members of  “The National Committee for the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel”, a former head of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and a member of the present Winograd Committee.

To solve the problem of borders, “right of return” and the demographic problem this creates for Israel, and the “settlements”, Sanders proposed that there should be a differentiation between Residency and Citizenship. Thus, Jews would remain on the West Bank as Residents of a newly created Palestinian State but remain citizens of Israel. Similarly, Arabs returning to Israel would be citizens of Palestine but residents of Israel allowed to vote in local elections in Israel and national elections in Palestine.

The problem of Jerusalem would be solved based on his research on the location of the original Temples of Solomon and Herod. All the evidence he uncovered pointed to the fact that the Temples were never on the Temple Mount but rather some 600 ft. further South in their more logical position over the Gihon Spring in the City of David. Thus Jews would be able to build their Third Temple in the City of David without disrupting the Temple Mount (Haram al Shafif) and the Arabs would have sole custody of that area and their third most Holy Site in Islam, the Al Aqsa Mosque.