https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/karen-kwiatkowski/an-excellent-solution-to-a-pressing-problem/

An Excellent Solution to a Pressing Problem
By Karen Kwiatkowski

All but two governments in the world deny that the slaughter of Gazans and decimation of Gaza must stop. None – but these two governments – fund it openly, and applaud it behind closed doors. The strip has been buried, along with many of its men, women and children, their belongings, their pets and livestock, in the dust and rubble of what was before. Those living are now being starved and chased in circles by the truly pathetic IDF, stupidly sharing proof of their criminality on social media, oddly expecting that there will be no trials, punishment, or retaliation.

The spiraling fear and narcissistic rage of 7 million Israelis has been created, not calmed, by a state experiment – political Zionism – gone horribly wrong. Last century’s racialist colonialism, clothed in a flawed mythology, veiled by a false religiosity, shaded by a hatred of stateless tribes by a people who themselves traded badly, tribe for state. This admixture of chaos is today evident on every dubious and shifting border of Israel. ...

... In designing the self-governing religious state to be constructed in Palestine, Zionists ignored proven contemporary cases. The world already had a successful model of a small, religiously-defined, self-governed state, supported grandly by a diaspora, one that influences widely and has few security concerns: the Vatican, the influential and unifying hub of world Catholicism. ...

... Zionism should have offered its European first men and women something very different. It should have offered a city-state, not a Jewish empire. It should have petitioned the British overlords for a small spot on the Mediterranean Sea, to construct and settle, for purposes of trade, religious study, banking, scholarship, and technology – for peace.

Just as we have a working model of an independent self-governing religious state, serving a global congregation, we also have a wide variety of successful secular models of economically brilliant independent city-states. The world could surely benefit from another Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, or Macau, even a Monaco or a Liechtenstein. In a future age of decentralization and peace, many more self-governing city-states will be welcomed, each a new and different jewel to be treasured by its residents, and the world. ......