Hawkish Likud MKs propose giving part of West Bank to Jordan

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"A number of lawmakers from the ruling Likud party on Tuesday proposed that Israel annex parts of the West Bank, while turning over Palestinian population centers to Jordanian jurisdiction.

The proposal was debated at a Knesset conference organized by Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely on alternatives to the two-state solution. The idea is a nonstarter with Israel's Arab neighbor and conflicts with U.S. President Barack Obama's support for a Palestinian state.

Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon, who participated in the conference, said past peace plans urging Israel to give up captured land to the Palestinians have failed.

"The Western way of thinking has proven irrelevant and dangerous to this region," the former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff said, adding that Israel should stop looking for an immediate solution to the conflict with the Palestinians."

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. The Palestinians don't want to be Jordanians. They want their own pied de terre

and sovereignty.

[ret5hd]

2. Seems they want a Kurdish situation in Jordan.

[LeftishBrit]

6. True - and also it's pretty clear that the Jordanians don't want them.

All of which makes this 'solution' both undesirable and impossible.

[safeinOhio]

3. If Israel wants a one state solution

it'd be one person one vote with liberty and justice for all.

[bemildred]

4. Right. Reality is ugly, let's just fantasize instead. nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. To be honest, I think it's peace that is the fantasy.

I don't think this proposal is in any way morally justifiable; I don't think it will bring peace; but I think it's less unlikely to happen than either a one-state or a two-state situation. I can't see Jordan accepting responsibility for the Palestinians, but something vaguely along these lines is far more likely than a solution, I think.

[bemildred]

7. What are we without our dreams but soft, empty shells?

Soon dead, and soon forgotten.

Peace could happen, it does now and then, for a while. Getting Jordan to take responsibility for the ugly bits that one does not want anymore, on the other hand, is not going to happen.