- Making land grants to the PLO to compensate it for land retained by Israel in the West Bank
- Assisting in resettling Palestinian Arab refugees from other Arab countries.
Kerry's predecessor Condoleezza Rice, had envisaged Jordan's involvement in the long running negotiationscas the following extract from the WikiLeaks Palestine Papers makes clear:
… negotiators tried to resolve disagreements by offering in earnest what, to some, might sound like outlandish suggestions. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was the source of one such proposal during a meeting on July 30, 2008 at the State Department. Rice kicked off the session by asking for a progress report on the points of agreement between the parties. After a quick update from Qurei and Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, the latter said that some major decisions had not been reached as far as how a future state of Palestine would look. "We need to know how it is going to work," she said, "The Airport and Seaport."
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Addressing the Palestinians, Rice then dropped this bombshell: "[Y]our airspace is so small - put it in Jordan." The Palestinian negotiators appeared shocked at the suggestion that they use a sovereign country's airspace as their own. Just under Rice's comment, the Palestinian note taker wrote in brackets: "Discussion on whether this is a joke or a real option. Tzipi Livni and Condoleezza Rice clearly think it is realistic as an option."
Jordan's likely inclusion in Kerry's framework agreement has been raised by US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki and Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in Lebanon's Daily Star:
… the only goal of the final status agreement is to bring peace and prosperity to not only the Israeli and the Palestinian people, but to the region," adding that "throughout every point in the process the United States has been engaged in consultations with the government of Jordan.
"Seeking to allay parliamentary fears, Judeh told lawmakers that Jordan, which shares the longest Arab border of 335 kilometers with Israel and the West Bank, had the right to "accept or reject" any point in the negotiations that does not bode well with its interests."
Kerry appears to understand that Jordan - an integral part of the Jewish-Arab conflict since 1920 - is the lynchpin to achieving any solution.
Jordan is not jumping for joy at the prospect.
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