Finding Strategic Solutions to Resolve Real World Conflicts 

CCRS was established following the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel by Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls Gaza. The initial project was to analyze why did Israel's response to the horrific events of October 7 trigger pro-Palestinian/anti-Israeli  demonstrations demanding a ceasefire, none of which occurred during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas in July 2014. What had changed?      Answering this question required researching the 75-year history of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. During the course of the research, one fact became abundantly clear - war followed by a ceasefire only leads to another war and another ceasefire and another war and another ceasefire and more of the same. The current Israeli-Hamas war was and is a predictable continuation of the cycle of increasing violence that defines the 75-year history of the Conflict and that another ceasefire simply continues the cycle.      While the initial focus of this project is important to complete, particularly given the escalation of the demonstrations to "pro-Hamas" and calling for Israel's destruction and revealing of the depth and teaching of antisemitism and antisemitic activity on America's college campuses, a related, but higher-priority project was identified.           The history of the Conflict shows that the current plight of the Palestinians in Gaza is a direct result of the failure of world leaders to come together independently or through the UN, to take action to stop Hamas and other terrorist organizations from weaving themselves into the fabric of the lives of the Palestinian people in Gaza. This failure allowed Hamas to take total control of every aspect of the Palestinian peoples’ lives, and their deaths, in Gaza for the past 18 years. But on October 7, Hamas crossed a line for which there is no forgiveness and no return to the status quo cycle of violence.      The irony of Hamas' attack is that it not only showed that Hamas must be eliminated, with the attendant cost of Israeli and Palestinian lives required to do so, but it also brought the Conflict to a point, for the first time in 75-years, that it can be resolved. With that realization, the focus of this project morphed into creating a Blueprint for imposing peace to end the Conflict. With Hamas' elimination as the controlling force in Gaza, Israel, allied with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Morocco, the EU, and the US do not need to negotiate peace, but can jointly act to impose peace and begin to implement that peace immediately.       The "Blueprint for an Imposed Peace to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" sets forth a comprehensive chronological history of the Conflict in Part One, found below, and the governing principals underlying and the Blueprint itself are in Part Two, found below. The cornerstones of the Blueprint are the Arab/Israeli/EU/US Alliance that makes up the members of the Governing Council, which will act to form a new Palestinian state to be placed in Trust administered by designated Trustees under the direction of the Governing Council. The Trust will exist until such time as the Governing Council determines that the citizens of the new Palestinian state have achieved certain benchmarks showing that they are ready and able to assume self-governance, under the ongoing protection of the Alliance. Palestinians have their country and Israel has its security, and the world is shown how to remove an embedded Iranian-supported terrorist organization.