The Onion was ahead of the news cycle on this one:
UNITED NATIONS–In a bold gambit hoped to resolve dozens of conflicts around the world, the U.N. announced Monday the establishment of Ethniklashistan, a multinational haven in the West Bank that will serve as a new homeland for Irish Protestants, Hutus, Serbs, and other troubled groups.
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An ethnographic map of the new Homeland. “For far too long, these groups have been locked in prolonged strife with their former neighbors, unable to achieve a lasting peace,” U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said. “Now that these various peoples have a new homeland where they can find refuge, all the years of fighting and bloodshed can finally be put behind them.”
Former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, now presiding over a Serb settlement near the Jordanian border, was optimistic about the future. “All Muslim scum must die,” he said. “Death to all enemies of Serbian purity!”
