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Israel & Jordan need to negotiate on Trump 2020 Peace Plan

By David Singer - posted Wednesday, 19 January 2022


Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit.

· Jordan was granted independence by Great Britain in 1946 - terminating its Mandate in the remaining 22% of Palestine in 1948.

· The PLO never claimed sovereignty in Judea/Samaria (West Bank) or Gaza on its establishment in 1964 – article 24 of its founding Charter declaring:

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This Organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.

Jordan occupied Judea/Samaria between 1948 and 1967.

Jordan's history certainly qualifies it to replace the PLO as Israel's negotiating partner to implement Trump's Plan.

Abdullah stressed to Gantz the:

...importance of maintaining calm in the Palestinian Territories and taking all measures to create the horizon needed to achieve just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution.

Jordan - stepping into the negotiating void created by Abbas's continuing rejection of Trump's Plan – would become a major driver in maintaining that calm.

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Israel-Jordan negotiations to redraw their currently-agreed existing international border - using Trump's Plan - could result in the following two-state solution first contemplated by the 1922 Mandate for Palestine:

1. Israel acquiring sovereignty in about 30% of Judea/Samaria (West Bank)

2. Jordan acquiring sovereignty in about 70% of Judea/Samaria (West Bank), all of Gaza and parts of Israel's existing sovereign territory.

3. No Arab or Jewish residents being forced to move from their current homes or business locations.

Trump's Plan has now become the definitive blueprint for resolving the 100-years old Arab-Jewish conflict in former Palestine.

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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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