If the current peace talks in Washington fail, (as seem inevitable after the position of Avigdor Lieberman, Israel'sForeign Minister, has now been made clear),  then the United Nations should declare the establishment of a new, bi-national STATE of JERUSALEM, with the international City of Jerusalem as its capital.

1. The new State of Jerusalem would encompass all of the present land of Israel , with its 7.5 million Jewish and Arab citizens plus the estimated four million Palestinians from the West Bank and the enclave of Gaza .  To this figure should be added approximately ½ to 1 million refugees from Egypt / Jordan , who originally fled from Palestine in 1948.

1. The area would encompass all that land between the Mediterranean Sea to the west, the Jordan River to the east, the Golan Heights to the north and Eilat - on the Red Sea - to the south.

1. These demographics indicate a bi-national state of roughly 12-13 million citizens of whom about 50% would be Jewish and the other half, primarily Muslim.

1. There would be free, democratic elections supervised by the UN, with all citizens having the rights to vote for their representatives to a National Assembly situated in the City of Jerusalem . The subsequent legislature would be representative of the electorate as a whole.  

1. There would be a constitution that would guarantee freedom of worship, freedom of movement and freedom of speech.

1. The new state would be granted membership of the United Nations as an independent, autonomous entity and would be allowed to be militarily equipped to fully defend itself from any attack. The existing nuclear weapons arsenal, however, would be dismantled under the supervision of the IAEA, in the interests of world peace.

1. The City of Jerusalem would remain an international city, as per the resolution of the UN, and there would be free access, in perpetuity, to its holy sites to any bona fide pilgrim or visitor.