Eliminate the impossible

"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."(Sherlock Holmes)

The current situation between Israel and Lebanon is depressing (see this article if you've been living in a cave or other place void of media coverage and scatter cushions). However, all is not lost. I have a plan to fix things. It is a little radical but bear with me.

Basically the problem is that Israel and Lebanon are bad neighbours. They don't see eye-to-eye about certain things, just as happens between people who live next door to each other sometimes. Ok I'll admit that any problems I've experienced with neighbours usual extends to late night parties or parking issues and not to fundamental idealism, but the problem is pretty much the same. And what do we do when we really don't get on with neighbours? We move. So lets move Israel. Not the land, just the people. But where to? I hear you ask. Well I've thought of that I think we move them to Wales. In fact my plan is to move everyone out of Wales and into to Israel and all the Israelis into Wales, thus killing two birds with one stone - well the Welsh have never liked us English much. I reckon we would get on much better with Israel and I wouldn't be surprised to find that Hezbollah and Plaid Cymru had a lot to talk about as well. Think of what it would do for both western understanding of the middle east situation as well as for leek sales. I'm sure most Welsh miners would find the transition into the oil industry trivial and they would soon start singing about them "beige dunes of home". Why I'll bet there are many warring nations that just need some breathing space from one and other where this kind of exchange program would work.

See, easy. I just hope Kofi Annan is still reading my blog.