--- title: Israel and Palestine: Why Profits Could Create Peace description: Profits for peace in Israel and Palestine, international cyberwar laws, fighting police use of force with data and more. canonical: https://time.com/3912440/peace-israel-palestine/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-08T18:15:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:10.132Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Profits Could Create Peace in Israel and Palestine og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3912440/peace-israel-palestine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Profits Could Create Peace in Israel and Palestine twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Profits Could Create Peace in Israel and Palestine by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 8, 2015 6:15 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 8, 2015 6:15 PM UTC **1\.** [**Billions in profit await Israeli-Palestinian peace.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/world/middleeast/profit-as-an-incentive-for-israeli-palestinian-peace.html?smid=tw-share) By Jodi Rudoren in the New York Times **2\.** [**Even war has laws. Now we need them for cyberwarfare.**](http://opiniojuris.org/2015/06/04/is-law-losing-cyberspace/) By Duncan B. Hollis in Opinio Juris **3\.** [**We need better data to reduce police use of force incidents.**](https://medium.com/@CoryBooker/the-role-of-reliable-data-in-reducing-police-use-of-force-incidents-6adb41d72f9a) By Cory Booker in Medium **4\.** [**College students are becoming the new ‘thought police.’**](http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid) By Edward Schlosser in Vox **5\.** [**Xi Jinping is China’s strictest leader since Mao. Is he repeating Mao’s mistakes?**](http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/xi-jinping-a-21st-century-mao) By Willy Lam in Prospect  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3912440/peace-israel-palestine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3912440/peace-israel-palestine/"},"headline":"Why Profits Could Create Peace in Israel and Palestine","datePublished":"2015-06-08T18:15:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:10.132Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3912440/peace-israel-palestine/","keywords":["Innovation","Israel","China","Gaza and the West Bank"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3912440/peace-israel-palestine/","name":"Why Profits Could Create Peace in Israel and Palestine"}}]}] ```