A few days ago I published: The Guarantee Exchange: A Religious-Track Architecture for Israeli–Palestinian Peace
The_Guarantee_Exchange_Baker_2026.pdf (68.8 KB)
Its premise is that peace processes in the Holy Land have failed in part because they treated religion as an obstacle to be routed around, or else attempted to transact in sacred space that no party has standing to trade. It proposes instead a layered regime of guarantees — legal, custodial, doctrinal, and popular — in which each community’s deepest fear concerning the holy places of Jerusalem is foreclosed, and the foreclosure is affirmed from within each tradition by its own religious authorities.
A few copies have been transmitted to appropriate leadership.
I write as a private individual, with no standing beyond the arguments themselves. I ask nothing except that the mechanisms be tested on their merits, amended where they fail, and used where they hold.
The paper is publicly and permanently archived at The Guarantee Exchange: A Religious-Track Architecture for Israeli–Palestinian Peace | Zenodo