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King Abdullah cannot exclude Jordan from any two-state solution

By David Singer - posted Thursday, 5 August 2021


Palestine and Transjordan are one, for Palestine is the coastline and Transjordan the hinterland of the same country

Israel achieved its independence in May 1948 in 17% of the territory comprised in the British Mandate.

  • Transjordan was unified with Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem into one territorial entity and renamed Jordan in 1950 after Transjordan had conquered those areas in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War – which lasted until their loss to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War.
  • Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem were designated "the West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" in the founding 1964 Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Charter – whilst regional sovereignty was not claimed by the PLO.
  • The 1964 PLO Charter asserted that "Palestine with its boundaries at the time of the British Mandate is a regional indivisible unit."
  • The revised 1968 PLO Charter confirmed that "Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit".
  • Arab residents of Judea and Samaria were Jordanian citizens between 1950 and 1988
  • Abdullah's uncle – Prince Hassan – told the Jordanian National Assembly on 2 February 1970:
    Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine, there is one people and one land, with one history and one and the same fate
  • The PLO unsuccessfully tried to seize power in Jordan in 1970
  • Prime PLO political strategist – Abu Iyad – declared in Near East Report on 8 January 1990:
    All those who tried in the past and are still trying to create divisions between theJordanian and Palestinian people have failed. We indeed constitute one people.
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Abdullah ignores these long-standing realities at his peril.

Abdullah is deluding himself in denying the role Jordan must inevitably play in achieving the long sought-after two-state solution: Redrawing the international border between Jordan and Israel - the two successor States to the British Mandate – allocating sovereignty between them in Judea Samaria and Gaza - without creating another state.

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Author's note: The cartoon - commissioned exclusively for this article - is by Yaakov Kirschen aka "Dry Bones"- one of Israel's foremost political and social commentators - whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.



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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International - an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.

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