All posts by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

Professor Korab-Karpowicz is one of Poland’s most renowned philosophers and political theorists. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the U. of Oxford and has taught at many universities, including the U. of Opole, the Anglo-American U. of Prague and the Texas State U. in San Marcos. In 2021-2022 he was a Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew U. of Jerusalem. His published books include: Political Realism: An Evolutionary Theory of International Relations (Routledge 2026) and Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind (Routledge 2017) and is also the author of a well-known article on “Political Realism in International Relations” in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
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A Value-Based Peace Proposal for the Middle East – by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

The New Israel and the New Palestine

“The world is the totality of values, rather than the totality of facts.”
— Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus, 7.2021

Modern diplomacy consistently fails in the Middle East because it treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a zero-sum collision of physical facts, borders, and raw power politics. This paper (Korab-Karpowicz 2026a) operationalizes the evolutionary axiology of the Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus to present a structural, value-based alternative.

By rejecting the Hobbesian trap of mechanically dividing the contested territory of the West Bank, I propose a grand geopolitical exchange: the complete integration of the West Bank into Israel to ensure its strategic and historical security, balanced by the creation of “The New Palestine”—a sovereign, world-class hyper-developed state encompassing the Gaza Strip and an expanded territory in the Sinai Peninsula, funded entirely by the international community.

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