Pressure Jordan - not Israel - to end the Jewish-Arab conflict

A few years ago I wrote a paper where I called for a merger between Palestine and Jordan. It got the Jordanians very irritated but it's really, I think, that Jordan is a country which has, you know, tremendous ties to Palestine and it has a decent government and a good infrastructure and it's like merging two companies one with a good management team and one with no management team and I think that if you had merged Palestine and Jordan you would negate the excuse that Israelis have that there isn't a credible government on the Palestinian side to rule it and Jordan which is a very stressed country economically could benefit from a larger population, more land, sea exposure on the Mediterranean with Gaza and a much more important geopolitical position, but I think the Jordanians are very shortsighted, they got very irritated when I wrote that paper and they are just trying to, they feel they want to try to hold on to what they have.

Rather than vainly continuing to try bashing Israel into committing political suicide by having a hostile Palestinian State on its doorstep seven of these eight Foreign Ministers would be better off calling on the eighth - Jordan - to implement HKOPS in direct negotiations with Israel.

Jordan's short-sightedness and irritation fades into insignificance when compared to the deaths and permanent physical and mental injury already sustained by hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Jews because HKOPS remains unimplemented.