Since the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has reached a complete deadlock under the current government, and since there is no prospect of any serious breakthrough with the next government, both sides have begun to exchange ideas “outside the box” in order to find temporary solutions to the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Many of the region’s decision-makers consider these ideas to be relics of the past. Nevertheless, in light of the daily events and realities, decision-makers find themselves forced to take such ideas off the shelf and to try to turn them into actual political fact, as the Palestinian Authority (PA) falls apart and loses its vital roles and tasks.

There is growing talk about returning the Palestinian territories to their pre-1967 borders, when Egypt ran the Gaza Strip and Jordan oversaw West Bank affairs.

As the result of the war, Israel pushed both countries back to their borders. During the past 40 years, however, everything has been water under the bridge, placing all involved parties at a crossroads: either to re-shape the Palestinian map, or for Israel to impose its security border on its neighboring countries.