A Frog-In-The-Well Solution - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

This PEIS Book presents the PEIS Plan - a three-state, triple-win proposal to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Egypt would transfer the troublesome northern and eastern Sinai (the PEIS Sinai) to the Palestinians, and use the proceeds for a new Egypt. The Palestinians would merge the PEIS Sinai with Gaza to form New Palestine, a contiguous, two-sea-access state with an unimpeded airspace. To fund the acquisition, they would transfer the embattled West Bank to Israel. By financing the three-way deal, Israel would secure permanent peace and legal recognition of Judea and Samaria as part of the new Israel.

The PEIS Plan stands for the Palestine-Egypt-Israel-Sinai peace plan.

The Book identifies the root cause of the Conflict as land: Israelis and Palestinians want the same piece of land - the West Bank. The introduction of the PEIS Sinai allows the two peoples, whose history intertwines, to develop separate futures in neighborly peace. The Book summarizes the current Conflict, describes the PEIS Plan, and explains why the Egyptians, Palestinians, Israelis, and the other parties to the Conflict such as the Bedouins and the Islamic insurgents, should consider the PEIS Plan, and how the PEIS Plan, in one stroke, would resolve the status of Jerusalem, the right of the return of the Palestinian diaspora, and other long-simmering issues, and how Israel could afford to ultimately pay for this three-way transaction.

The PEIS Plan's transactions would transfer the lands, but not the private properties on top of the lands. Egyptian companies could remain in the PEIS Sinai to capture the tremendous opportunities of nation-building in New Palestine. The Palestinians in the West Bank, now citizens of New Palestine, could remain in this transferred territory as long as they wish, with their stay protected under the innovative native residency. The PEIS Plan requires native residency to be amended into Israel's Basic Laws to give New Palestinian citizens in the West Bank the same local rights as Israeli citizens: they could not be deported, their assets could not be confiscated, they could run for local offices and vote for their candidates, and they could move freely and peacefully within the West Bank as a reassured Israel gradually removed barriers and checkpoints.

The Book frames the PEIS Plan core chapters with biographical writing about the author's youth in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and his drawing parallels with the presented Conflict.

The PEIS Plan was developed when the Conflict was simmering but not boiling. The first edition of the PEIS Book was published a few days before Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel. With the Middle East now tormented by shooting wars and the PEIS Plan as viable as before, this 2025 Revised Edition expands the first edition with new appendices:

Appendix A: The Cast of Characters

The core chapters use epithets instead of names, emphasizing their roles. This appendix associates the epithets with names, pictures, and links to biographies.

Appendix B: The Cession Impediments

The core chapters skim over the legalistic and nationalistic impediments to the PEIS Plan. This appendix deep dives into these issues.

Appendix C: The Idiotic PEIS Plan

This appendix has the author's responses to negative feedback on the PEIS Plan.

Appendix D: The Plan After

This appendix describes how the PEIS Plan is a viable follow-up to the October 2025 ceasefire in the two-year-old Gaza War.

Appendix E: No Beef With Iran

This thought exercise shows a path to end the animosity between Israel and Iran.

Doc Ngu writes about novel solutions to the world's most intractable conflicts under the A Frog-In-The-Well Solution banner. The website, words.docngu.net, lists his books in the series. Doc Ngu grew up in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and had a post-colonial French education steeped in romantic ethos and the idyllic id. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, he was exposed to a totally different literary genre of socialist realism, communist absolutism, and id-killing collectivism. In 1979, he escaped Vietnam as a Boat People refugee and, one year later, was resettled in the U.S. Over the next several years, he discovered a new learning model: the American college education, which freed the id with intellectual interdisciplinary exposure. His chosen field further trained him in systematic problem-solving, analytical rigor, and creativity. In 1984, he graduated with highest honors in his engineering class, and in 1996, received his doctoral degree in Computer Science, hence the "Doc" in "Doc Ngu". From the crucible of romanticism, realism, and a mindset to bridge the two, emerge the outside-the-box answers to many boxed-in conundrums of the world -- some hail them as deus ex machina moments, others find them idiotic. The "Ngu" in "Doc Ngu" is an abbreviation of "", which is a common Vietnamese surname. It also means "idiot" in Vietnamese, and was chosen to acknowledge the expected critics. A frog in a well knows nothing beyond his small world but croaks all night long.