Why this project exists

Children of One People is an open, collaborative effort to work out — in real structural detail — what a shared constitutional future for Israelis and Palestinians could look like.

It began with an initial draft: a complete attempt to answer the hard questions in specifics rather than slogans — how power would be divided so no community could dominate another, how courts and institutions would earn trust, how a transition could actually work. That draft is not the point of this project. It's the opening move.

This isn't meant to be one person's proposal that others are invited to comment on. The goal is for authorship itself to become shared — for Israelis, Palestinians, and others with a real stake in this land's future to challenge, rebuild, and co-author what comes next, and for editorial ownership of the work to move outward as that happens. Whether or not any resulting document ever becomes law, we believe the work of specifying justice and coexistence in real detail has value — and that it can only be done honestly, together.

Why "Natufian"?

The name draws on the Natufians, among the earliest known settled communities in this region — long before modern nations, religions, or borders existed. We use it symbolically, to point toward a human story in this land that runs deeper than the categories of the present conflict, not to make a claim about who descends from whom.

To be direct about what this isn't: it isn't a genetic argument, an indigeneity test, or a way of deciding who was "there first." It doesn't imply that Israelis and Palestinians are "the same people," and it isn't a request that anyone set aside their Jewish, Palestinian, Israeli, Arab, or other identity. Shared ancestry doesn't require pure ancestry, and a shared frame for our history doesn't erase what's genuinely distinct between us.

What this is, and isn't