Declaration of Principles
"Children of One People"
This Declaration is presented as a distinct document from the operative Constitution. Its precise interpretive role — purely aspirational, or available as an interpretive aid where the Constitution's text is genuinely ambiguous — is an open design question this project hasn't yet resolved.
I. OF OUR SHARED ORIGIN
We, the people of the Land of Natufian Reunification, descend from one of humanity's oldest continuously inhabited regions. We are inheritors of a land that has witnessed civilization, faith, beauty, suffering, renewal, and division.
Before there were nations, before there were religions, before there were names for what divided us, there were people in this land. We take our name and our founding spirit from that ancient truth.
We acknowledge that we are not the first people here—we are all the first people here. All who call this land home inherit a common humanity that long predates our present divisions, while each also carries a history, identity, and memory uniquely their own.
II. OF TRUTH, GRIEF, AND RECONCILIATION
We acknowledge without evasion the pain that has been inflicted and endured in this land across generations: the dispossessions, the wars, the erasures, and the grief carried in the bodies and memories of millions. We neither diminish this suffering nor permit it to define the limits of what we may yet become.
We choose truth over denial, justice over grievance, and reconciliation over perpetual resentment. We commit ourselves to confronting the past with honesty, addressing wrongs with fairness, and extending mercy where justice allows, so that healing—not inherited bitterness—may become the legacy we leave to those who follow us.
III. OF THE CHOICE AGAINST DOMINATION
We have chosen to build a state in which no community may permanently dominate another, because history teaches that domination ultimately diminishes both the governed and the governing.
We establish institutions whose highest obligations are truth, justice, human dignity, and accountability, understanding that systems devoted to anything less inevitably become instruments of power rather than servants of the people.
We deliberately and permanently distribute authority throughout our constitutional order, knowing that concentrated power corrupts not only through malice, but through the gradual erosion of accountability, humility, and restraint.
IV. OF INHERENT DIGNITY AND THE LAND
We recognize that fundamental human rights do not arise from the generosity of governments nor the consent of majorities. They belong inherently to every human being. No emergency, no majority, no tradition, and no authority may rightfully extinguish them.
We receive this land—its mountains and valleys, its rivers and deserts, its soil, its waters, its ancient groves, and its sacred places—as a trust held jointly for every generation. We accept the duty to preserve it not as owners, but as stewards for those yet unborn.
We extend to our neighbors and to the world a hand of genuine peace—not the peace born of exhaustion or submission, but the peace of people who have consciously chosen a better future.
V. OF MUTUAL AFFIRMATION AND COMMON DESTINY
This union is neither the victory of one people over another nor the surrender, subsumption, or erasure of any identity, culture, language, faith, heritage, or community. It is the deliberate choice of free peoples to bind their futures together while remaining fully and proudly themselves.
The Jewish and Israeli peoples bring to this union histories stretching across millennia; the Palestinian people bring histories equally rooted in this land. Each preserves its language, culture, faith, memory, and identity. Neither must cease to be itself for this union to endure.
The Christian, Druze, Bedouin, Baháʼí, Samaritan, Yazidi, and many other communities likewise contribute their distinct traditions, histories, and enduring presence. Their diversity is not incidental to this nation, but essential to its character.
Both are indigenous. Both are home. Neither is guest.
United not by uniformity but by mutual recognition, we affirm that our shared future depends upon protecting the equal dignity, equal liberty, and equal security of every person and every community.
With clear eyes about the work before us, enduring hope for generations yet unborn, and confidence that peace is sustained through justice, truth, and mutual respect, we declare these Principles as the common inheritance of our people and the enduring ideals toward which our Republic shall always strive. Though generations may disagree in policy, may they never abandon the conviction that every person possesses equal dignity, every community deserves equal security, and our future is stronger when built together than apart.