There is significant discussion in Israel, as there has been for the past decade, about the fact that a two state solution will not work. The Palestinians could not run a government. The new discussion concerns the One State solution in which there is no need to have an unwilling or imaginary Palestinian partner.
My thinking along these lines has been how to deal with the question of administering a separate Palestinian population.
The problem arises because operating a separate province is currently costly in financial as well as human terms. Israelis are not really willing to invest much time or personnel in administering an unruly people; Israelis and Jews have a 2000 history of being the oppressed rather than the the administrator.
I wish to tell my Israeli friends that there is a very low cost and efficient mechanism for administering subsidiary provinces.
This method was used effectively in Japan and Turkey. Japan for roughly 400 years of effective central administration and Turkey in the Ottoman-Turkish Empire for more than 700 years.
The mechanism is straightforward. It consists in taking the leaders of all major families and continually moving them from their domain of control to the location of the centralized government, and simultaneously moving their families in the opposite direction.
For example, I don't know how many major families there are among Palestinians, I would guess something like 20 families. The leaders of half of each of these families would be taken to live in the headquarters in Ramallah where they would be housed alone on a regular basis. Their families would be housed in excellent housing in Bethlehem. They would be allowed to talk by phone but not allowed to visit. Every year there would be a visiting period. Annually the 10 leaders whose families were in Bethlehem would be switched with the other 10 families in Ramallah; they would then move to Bethlehem and their leaders would be in Ramallah.
This is the way the Japanese maintained central control of Japan and the Ottoman-Turks maintained control of a gigantic Empire. In Japan the headquarters became Tokyo, in the Ottoman Empire it was Istanbul.
It is about time that we learn how to administer a subsidiary population. We don't have a choice.