A structured scientific solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the analytic hierarchy process approach

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Table 19 Israeli, Palestinian benefits and costs, perceived benefits and costs, and gain ratios for Principle 3

Concessions	Israelis’ costs	Israelis’ perception of Palestinians’ benefits	Israelis’ total loss	Palestinians’ benefits	Palestinians’ perception of Israelis costs	Palestinians’ total gain
Israelis
1	0.45099442	0.810588685	365,570.9737	1	1	1,000,000
2	1	0.716169725	716,169.7248	0.990938381	0.89757763	889,444.1231
3	0.588782372	1	588,782.3723	0.986709625	0.797919038	787,314.3947

Concessions	Palestinians’ costs	Palestinians’ perception of Israelis’ benefits	Palestinians’ total loss	Israelis’ benefits	Israelis’ perception of Palestinians’ costs	Israelis’ total gain
Palestinians
1	1	1	1,000,000	1	1	1,000,000
2	0.533333333	0.925888553	493,807.228	0.824247045	0.544142484	448,507.8349

	P1	P2		Concessions	Gain
Israeli ratios
I1	2.735446936	1.226869383	Trade-off
I2	1.396317054	0	Israeli	1, 2	2.735
I3	1.698420413	0	Palestinian	1, 2	2.801

Note that the Israeli bundle consisting of the pairs (I1, P1) and (I2, P2) yielding a gain of 2.735 is matched with the Palestinian bundle consisting of the pairs (I1, P1) and (I2, P2) yielding a gain of 2.801, which is within 2.5 % of each other, which is an acceptable ratio. Please note that the Israeli and Palestinian actions are listed in Tables 17 and 18, respectively