New Peace Proposal (One that should work)

[Darkseid]

This is an actual proposal I have made to establish a new state in the Middle East.

Disclaimer: I have no intent on making an unpopular thread and these are my ideas that reflect my best interest on establishing peace on a neutral grounds between the Palestinians and Israelians. And I am deeply sorry if I have harmed or alarmed anyone through this thread.

The United States of the Levant will be a new identity in the Middle-East that is pro-democratic, pro-constitutional, pro-peace, and pro-tolerant. Although it may be renamed the Levant or something else in the future.

By the way, the name “Levant” can be changed to Levant, Phoenicia, or something else if people want to rename the entire state. But it should be a neutral name that no single faction completely supports. So the name has to be a neutral affiliation. Plus, Levant is about as neutral as it gets. But I will consider different names if they are neutrally implied.

The United States of the Levant will six encompass of coastal Mediterranean states of the Middle East. Israel (with far less Zionistic activity), Al Gaza (Gaza-Strip with an Arabic name), Sinai (the Sinai peninsula of Egypt, which is actually a part of Asia and not Africa, thus it does not belong as a part of an African country), Palestine (independent of Israel as a valid member of the union), Golan (Short of Golan heights and will become a primarily Druze community of the region), and Lebanon as the Northern state with mix Christian and Muslim populous. There will also be a federal district establish for the city of Jerusalem to have it established as the center of religious freedom for the world and capital of the federation, which is my idea for the city.

By the way, Lebanon, Golan, and Sinai will have the chance to vote on joining the federation which will insure their individual stability, existence, and protection. It will also insure their right of being a part of the federation by their own choice and that choice will remain forever remain free for them to choose incase they decline initially.

The United States of the Levant will encompass a tricameral legislature, a semi-presidential executive, an independent and elected judicial branch, and two additional branches for the sole purpose of insuring direct democracy and protecting the people from the federal government. It is similar to what is already available in Taiwan or the Republic of China.

:Legislature:

The USC will encompass a tricameral legislature.

The lowest house is the National Assembly that encompasses representatives that are elected for a term of two years from each state and the federal district on a ratio of representation of one representative for every one-hundred thousand people and an additional representative for any amount of people that remains. The districts of the National Assembly are assigned by the electoral branch of the government, the Directory to insure stability and fair election for all Levantines. Each assembler is required to know both Arabic and Hebrew, be at least 20 years of age, have prior political experience (more like a mayor or representative from a state's legislative branch), a living resident of the electoral district they are representing, a citizen of the state that district encompasses for at least 15 years, a citizen of the federal government (more than likely automatic), and pass the easy as pie intelligence exam (a simple IQ test administered by the Directory that should be easy for anyone with an IQ around 100 or higher to pass). The exam is to insure people smarter than Bush are elected into office. Those people are still allowed to vote.

The uppermost house is the Federal Senate that encompasses six representatives from each state and four from the district of Jerusalem for a term of six years. One of the six senators will be elected based on popular vote, which will allow direct democratic representation of the individual favored by each state. Another one of the six senators will be elected by the lower house of each state’s legislation to allow legislative representation of the popular course and allow a tighter grip on the federation by its states to keep the federation away from over powering each individual state. Another senator will be elected by the upper house of each state’s legislation, which will insure an even tighter grip on the federation by each state. Furthermore, one more senator will be elected by the regional representation in each state or that is they will be elected on the basis of winning over each district or province in the state that they are campaigning under. If there is a tie then the executive official of that state will make his or her decision as a tie-breaking vote. Moreover, an additional senator elected by each on a special ballot to allow either a minority (of either ethnicity or religion) or a woman (or both a woman and a minority) elected to insure fair representation of minorities and women in the USC. Finally, one senator elected by party representation (or basically one appointed by the political party that has won in that election). Since the District of Palestine is one region and has one house of legislation, it can only have four senators. Each Senator must be at least 40 years of age, a citizen of the federation and the state they represent, have prior political experience, and pass the easy as pie intelligence exam.

The middle house is the chamber of censors, which are elected on basis of representation of each state's university, military, and officials appointed by the current president. Israel will elect seven elected officials from each of its universities, since it has seven universities (if you exclude the one in Jerusalem which would have made eight). Jerusalem will have one elected official from its only university. Palestine will have seven officials from its universities, since it has seven universities. The Sinai, Al Gaza, and Golan states will have their own university representatives once they have each established their own universities. Lebanon has 41 universities. Therefore, Lebanon must select its best ten universities out of the 41 (which will encourage its universities to compete in trying to become the best university it can be) to take into account of legislative representation. The military institutions and bases will be allowed to appoint 10 people to this house as well (generally just five from Israel and five from Lebanon to begin with until a united Levant military is organized). Finally the president is allowed to appoint five additional people to insure an equal numerical representation as that of the Senate. Does that serve any important role? Well having the same value doesn't, but insuring an even number of representatives in a non-popular house does, but not in the manner you may consider as important. The Censors are elected or appointed for four years and must be at least 18 years of age, a true representative (active military official, student, faculty member, or if appointed they must be approved by majority rule of the other censors), a citizen of the federation, some political knowledge (rather than experience, which would probably be none), and pass the easy as pie intelligence exam.

The National Assembly is headed by the popularly elected member called the President of the National Assembly. The National Assembly is in charge of domestic issues, financial matters, electing the prime minister, originating issues concerning revenue, originating issues authorizing the expenditure of federal funds, requesting approval for all Prime Minister Acts before they take into effect, and removing the prime minister by a majority vote of no approval.

The Senate is headed by a popularly elected candidate from the presidential election that will not be serving as president and is called the President of the Senate. The Senate is in charge of foreign issues, removing the president if he or she is impeached, removing Superior Justices if impeached, approve the selection of candidates running for prime minister or chancellor on matters of qualification, approve the selection of judges appointed on matters of qualification, and approve the selection of cabinet members assigned to the president or prime minister on matters of qualification.

The Chamber of Censors is headed by a popularly elected official from the presidential election that will not be serving as president and is called the President of the Chamber. The Chamber of Censors is in charge of insuring the balance between the Senate and the National assembly, thus is why it is called, "The middle branch." The chamber of censors is allowed to regulate legislation just like the other two houses, elect the Chancellor after being approved by the Senate, and it is allowed to remove the Chancellor (leader of the Constitution Branch of the government) by vote of disapproval. Since the Censors are exclusively elected or appointed it insures their neutrality between the two other houses.

Legislation only requires a 2/3 house approval to become a law (that is if it isn't vetoed by the president or declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court). To override a veto it requires a 3/3 house approval. This insures a quicker legislative function like a parliamentary system, while retaining its semi-presidential system of government. The Senate has first dibs on electing its president before the Chamber. The Assembly is allowed to impeach the president. The Chamber is allowed to impeach Justices. The Senate and the Chamber are allowed to remove their own presidents if they vote in majority on disapproval with support by the Constitution branch to remove those officials. If the presidents of the Senate or Chamber are removed, then those houses are allowed to elect their own president from one of their own members for the remainder of the time prior to the next election. If they cannot decide or tied in electing a new president of their respected house, then the president of the Levant will choose.

:Executive:

The executive is semi-presidential with a president as head of state and foreign affairs and a prime minister as head of the government and domestic affairs.

The president is elected for a five year term and can be re-elected by approval of the Constitution Branch (Since it advocates in the best interest of the people from being abused by or from the government) and the Electoral Branch (which insures direct electivity). The reason for this is that the Constitution branch must make sure that the president is not trying to Constitution the masses under false pretenses as use that power over step his or her bounds and the Electoral Branch must make sure that there is no fraud in the election process and that the candidates qualify in the position that they are covering in the election to not promote fraud on their own part as well. The President is also allowed to nominate the prime minister, but so is the President of either house of the Levant's Parliament.

The Prime Minister is elected by the National Assembly for the same amount of time as the president and can be re-elected by approval of the Constitution Branch.

Both the President and the Prime Minister must be at least 30 years of age, have some prior political experience pertaining to their position (domestic for prime minister and foreign or interstate for president), and have passed the easy as pie intelligence exam. However, the president must be a naturally born citizen of the Levant and the prime minister must be an abiding citizen with at least 15 years of citizenship within the Levant.

:Judicial:

The Judicial branch is composed of several levels from community to county (sub-district in present terms) to province (district in present terms) to state to federal or super-national. The Judicial branch is independent from the other branches of the government and is composes of elected superior officials and appointed subordinate officials.

The highest court in the land is the Supreme Court composed of Superior Justices and Lesser Justices. The Superior Justices are elected base on approval of judicial difference of association. The Chancellor must select ten officials for each of the five positions, which are approved by the Censors. These officials must approved base on federal dominion and the one with the highest approval is appointed. If there is a tie, then the elected results that came in at the same time will also verify. The election results are base on preference of approval from most approve to least approve and there is also the middle or equal approve of certain candidates. If those results specify with a tie or with both candidates having less than 1000 in difference then the president will choose.

There are five judicial differences of association.

1) Jewish Law
2) Arabic Law (mostly referred to as Islamic Law)
3) Christian Law (mostly referred to as Orthodox Christian Law, Lebanon and Golan have a high significance to Orthodox Christianity)
4) Druze Law (It is a bit different from traditional Islamic and is tolerated by most Jews)
5) International Law for the role of Chief Superior Justice

The President is allowed to appoint Lesser Justices by approval of 3 out of 5 Justices. The Lesser Justices will act as advisors, substitutes, and replacements in any case that those roles are needed. The Lesser Justices serve life terms until either impeached and removed from office or retired.

:Elective:

The Electorial comprises of the Directory, which is headed by the Director. The Director is appointed out of the Chief Electors by the Justices with approval by all three houses of legislation. Chief Electors are distributed across the federation to tally up results and insure election. The ministry of justice is in charge of insuring the legitimacy and honor of the Chief Electors. And the Constitution branch is in charge of removing Chief Electors in the case that their legitimacy was fraud. The Chief Electors are appointed by their corresponding state governments for a term of three years.

:Constitution:

The Constitution comprises of the Counsel of Administration which oversees all activity done by the other branches of the government and reports directly to the people by the press or those that are in charge of administrating justice. The Counsel of Administration can be dissolved by it self or by the Judicial system for stepping out of bounds with its duties like spreading propaganda or unintentionally endangering the people in a similar instance and therefore must be re-established with fresh members. However it is allowed to remove dissolve any house of legislation by approval with a vast majority of the public and call new elections. And it can remove the Judicial from support by approval from all houses of legislation. It is also allowed to enforce the law and even command the military if forcibly removing the president or prime minister in the instance that they refuse to step down from office after being impeached and removed by the legislature. The head of the Constitution branch is the Chancellor, who is nominated by the president and elected by the Chamber of Censors. The Chancellor is elected for a term of eight years and is allowed to appoint his entire cabinet of officials under similar terms as that of the Prime Minister and President. The Chancellor must be a current and at least 15 year long citizen of the USC, has a considerable amount of political knowledge or experience, and has to pass the easy as pie intelligence exam.


:Summary:

5 branches

1) Tricameral Legislature (make laws base on popular, regional, and neutral representation)
2) Semi-presidential Executive (enforce laws)
3) Independent Judicial (Interpret the laws)
4) Regional Electorial (Provide administration for making, enforcing, and interpreting the laws)
5) Balanced Constitution (Provide protection for the citizens from either of the four branches above base on the laws made, enforced, or interpreted)

6 states and 1 federal district and capital.

1) Israel
2) Lebanon
3) Al Gaza
4) Golan
5) Palestine
6) Sinai
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7) District of Jerusalem

(Peace Agreements)

1) All Native-Born Palestinians that have lose their land from the 1948 conflict will be allowed to return to their land. Children of these individuals that are less than adult age will be allowed to return as well, because they need their parents to take care of them till they are of legal age as adults on their own. So this arrangement will allow refugees of primarily over the age of 59 and less than the age of 18 (or whatever the age is to be adult) are allow to return to their land. This will reduce the number of refugees to those that deserve and need to be in their land. The others will have to get over the conflict and become Egyptian, Jordan, Turkish, or whatever citizen. They can later return to Israel and regain their land under accordance of immigration laws established. This is a very unlikely event that they will regain their land, but in according to god's wishes the only ones that truly are refugees are those that actually had lose their land. This isn't a family related issue. This is a direct issue. The only family related part is for those children that are young enough to still need to be taken care of by their parents and I will even be fair enough to include those critically disabled individuals the right to return as well that require the same care as that of a child. Technology these days will insure fair and legal access for those that are true to their word. Plus pledging on the koran may also be a way to insure legitamacy.

2) Israel is prohibited from taking over any land and engaging into any war with any neighboring country unless it is for defense and the approval of the federation, since the federations should own the miltary. Israel is also prohibited from ending trade with other federal states and with other Arab States.

3) Outside countries and other federal states are prohibited from engaging in war, dispermiting trade, disallowing the access and broadcast of films made in Israel as long as those movies are approve by the Federation to be fair and unracist. They can only engage into war if it is approved by the U.N.

4) No country is allowed to use nukes or have nukes in the middle-east and in Iran.

5) All al-Queda operatives will have to surrender themselves and be executed. If they wish not to be executed, then they will have to take up the faith of Draniesm.

6) All acts of Zionism are to be prohibited in Israel and Israel affiliated settler programs are prohibited as well. And those that want to kill all Arabs are to be executed or exiled from the federation.

7) Israel will have to establish full and true equality for everyone in its state on religious and ethnic terms. This will insure that Israeli Arabs are equal before the law and access to all the same privledges except for those that are affiliated to indepedent religious institutions.

8) However, Israel can limit all forms of immigration of its choice. Under the same terms Israeli immigrants can be forbidden from settling in Arab states.

9) If both states declare war on each other and both state for terms of defense and without approval by the U.N. then I will insure that your god shall bring the outmost destruction of which ever state that was the most responsible just as he has done before with Sodom and Gomorrah. I assure you that my judgement is neutral and unbias and my words come from the lord that I have encountered. So if you want Allah to destroy you like he did to Sodom and Gomorrah, continue playing rough. If you don't, then co-exist.

-that's the end of the whole proposal-

If I have confused, angered, amused, or alarmed anyone. Please and I insist ask me what is confusing, angering, amusing, or alarming you so that we can take care of it in a civilized matter. The last thing I want is a misinterpretation. Your questions should be formated on establishing a change or alteration in this proposal to remain mostly the same while agreeing to your ideas as well. That way a compromise is made rather than a conflict occurs. If there are any of my ideas that need to be change, then just simply say how they should be changed and why but under civilized terms and I will do my best to establish those adjustments.

[Darkseid]

My appologies, I originally wrote this in Dranitoan (my own written language that I invented). And I forgot to retranslate the USC to USL, United States of the Levant. My appologies and peace out my fellow brothers and sisters of god.

[Tiger_Stripes]

Peace is a myth...just like utopia. Tell me one time where there was anything called "peace." Peace is simply postponement of war.

[north_malaysian]

How about Syria, Jordan and Antioch region of Turkey? They're Levantine Arabs too... I think those areas should be included in the Levant....

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[lavikor201]

Peace is a myth...just like utopia. Tell me one time where there was anything called "peace." Peace is simply postponement of war.

So is this person naive or completly brainwashed? I would have to say a combo of both.

[MTAFFI]

Peace is a myth...just like utopia. Tell me one time where there was anything called "peace." Peace is simply postponement of war.

and as long as people think like that it will always be a myth :cry:

[wilberhum]

So is this person naive or completly brainwashed? I would have to say a combo of both.

He is the same one who said:

All Christians hate Muslims. All Muslims hate Jews. All Jews hate Christians.

So he is operating on the basis that everyone is defined by who they hate. If hate is your religion, there can never be peace.
:raging:

[Tiger_Stripes]

So is this person naive or completly brainwashed? I would have to say a combo of both.

Your fellow Israelis are in peace?

[Tiger_Stripes]

He is the same one who said:

So he is operating on the basis that everyone is defined by who they hate. If hate is your religion, there can never be peace.
:raging:

Sigmund Freud proved that there is substantial amount of hate suppressed at the subconscious level.

[wilberhum]

Sigmund Freud proved that there is substantial amount of hate suppressed at the subconscious level.

Well there is nothing subconscious about your hate. :enough!:
You see it every where.

[Muezzin]

Sigmund Freud proved that there is substantial amount of hate suppressed at the subconscious level.

Sigmund Freud said a lot of things.

Shall we get back to discussing this peace proposal now?

[Darkseid]

How about Syria, Jordan and Antioch region of Turkey? They're Levantine Arabs too... I think those areas should be included in the Levant....

You are right my friend. They should be given the right to join the federation as well. But Syria will have to become less authoritarian before it join the federation or I fear they'll just take it over and make the whole area, Syria. Lebanon fears that reality so, I think we should wait on Syria right to join. Also Jordan would have to give up its monarchy or most of its monarchy. I think it could retain a monarchy as a parliamentary monarchy like Great Britian and Cambodia, but it would certainly need it less autocratic since it would be a part of a union and not the head of a union.

But the the Antioch Region of Turkey is a legit region that could be given the right to join the Union.

Peace is a myth...just like utopia. Tell me one time where there was anything called "peace." Peace is simply postponement of war.

Do not fear my friends. The demon has been slain and so has his illogical speech.

Peace can be brought as long people desire for it to occur. And though he is right that it is human nature to retain a judgemental mind it does not mean we can co-exist with a judgemental mind.

The existence of the United States after it had seperated from Great Britain and stayed together as a union rather than divided by hate is a clear instance that Tiger-Strips's ideas are proven to be incorrect.

People can co-exist. It is just that happens to be a trick in how to insure that there is a co-existence.

People share hate, but we also share love and peace. Balance in insured as a matter of man's existence as told by god. We share both qualities and it is by our own will and wits that determines which force shall take over our lives.

But I rather be controlled by foolish love than by foolish hate.