I think we have to press for more than an independent state, and we have to press, lobby etc. the government for massive immigration. We should have a substantial colony here in the U.S. -- in part to take the population pressure off the situation there, and in part as acknowledgement that our country has not been totally fair. I would start with hundreds of thousands and maybe go as high as one million, and ask for volunteers who want to go to rural areas with declining populations. We have land, they have at least an older population with skills. They are used to dry land farming, or were. They admittedly did not make the desert bloom, but they worked with it. Great Britain is probably too small to take many, but Canada could and should. Argentina perhaps? Start with the ones in Lebanon and go from there. Insist on all of the younger ones having trades, regardless of whether or not they go for advanced education, the same requirement I would make of all American students. mg