T. Belman. Pure speculation. Singer offers no evidence in support of his speculation. Algiers is totally against the Abraham Accords. It has a border dispute with Morocco who also joined the Abraham Accords to the chagrin of Algiers. Morocco also did not attend. Nor has King Abdullah embraced the Plan.
They did not show up at the Arab League Summit recently. Does that mean they reject the Arab Peace Initiative for their own? Op-ed.
Dry Bones- Is Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan still alive?Y. Kirschen
Non-participation by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister – Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) – and Jordan’s King Abdullah at the 31st Summit of the Arab League held in Algiers on 1 and 2 November – even via Zoom – was highly significant – signalling that the Saudi-based plan to merge Jordan, Gaza and part of the ‘West Bank’ into one territorial entity to be called the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine (HKoP solution) still remains a viable solution to replace the failed 20 years-old two-state solution proposed by the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative (API) – endorsed yet again in Algiers.
Saudi Arabia, the EU, and the Arab League had previously held a closed ministerial meeting on 21 September to activate the API – given the absence of any prospect for a political resolution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This September meeting followed publication of the HKoP solution in Al Arabiya News on 8 June – amazingly attracting no mention at the UN and scant attention in the international media and more importantly within Israel and Israel’s media.
The HKoP solution was certainly newsworthy since it offered Israel:
· Sole sovereignty in Jerusalem
· Abandonment of the right of Palestinian Arabs to return to Israel
· No separate Palestinian State between Israel and Jordan
· The shelving of the API
· Sovereignty in part of the ‘West Bank’ (to be netotiated) for the first time in 3000 years.
The HKoP solution also offered the Arab populations of Gaza, the ‘West Bank’ and Palestinian Arab refugees in other locations:
· “a legal identity—a globally respected citizenship that allows a person to operate in the modern world. Labor in this day and age is mobile and having citizenship in a country that facilitates such mobility is critical to human development.”
· “Palestinians in Arab countries like Lebanon can then become citizens of this enlarged kingdom while also getting full residency rights in Lebanon, equivalent to what an EU citizen has in the European Union outside his or her home country. This would allow the Palestinians to gain full civil rights as legal foreign residents without impacting the local political or sectarian balance in these countries. The GCC, the EU, the US, Canada, and others can also help support this solution by granting this Jordanian–Palestinian passport easier access to their labor markets.”
The Saudi proposal’s author – Ali Shihabi – is a confidant of MBS and a member of the Advisory Board appointed by MBS to report to him on the building of a new US$500 billion mega city – Neom – in northern Saudi Arabia bordering Israel.
Shihabi had lamented on the absence of a response from any Israeli politician to his plan on 14 August.
This lack of Israeli interest was ongoing when the 21 September meeting agreed:
“to work with regional and international partners to shed light on the tragic situation of the Palestinians in light of the deadlock in the peace process and the absence of any glimmer of hope and to urge them to take practical steps to support the resumption of dialogue on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative, United Nations resolutions and relevant peace references, in addition to reviving the diplomatic track to overcome the despair and lack of a vision toward achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and establishing their state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
MBS was not at this meeting but was subsequently appointed Saudi Arabia’s Prime Minister on 27 September.
MBS, King Abdullah, PLO Leader Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh have not rejected the HKoP solution.
MBS and King Abdullah’s non-participation at Algiers offers the glimmer of hope that the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine can soon become a conflict-ending reality.
David Singeris an Australian lawyer who is active in Zionist community organizations in that country. He founded the “Jordan is Palestine” Committee in 1979. The cartoon was created by the well known cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen at his request;
#Sebastian
There is only an agreement to negotiate under the Oslo Accords – not a signed peace treaty .
Israel’s disengagement from Gaza and withdrawal from South Lebanon were undertaken unilaterally with no Peace Treaty in either case. Israel has paid a heavy price for taking these decisions.
“Peace in our time” has indeed prevailed for 43 years with Peace Treaties signed with Egypt, 28 years with Jordan and will hopefully continue with more Arab countries signing on to the Abraham Accords.
@Dave
Umm. You mean like they said about the Oslo Accords and the Gaza disengagement and the withdrawal from Southern Lebanon?
“Peace in our time.” – Neville Chamberlin
“The funniest joke in the world” – Monty Python’s Flying Circus
https://youtu.be/prDoDPIpX4E
#Sebastian
Despite the 2018 hot air outburst by al Majali and the the failure to renew a lease arrangement in 2019 the 1994 Peace Treaty still remains in force in 2022.
I have no doubt that any attempt by Jordan to breach the Peace Treaty would be met with an appropriate response from Israel.
Peace means an absence of war – and that is what the Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty has achieved for the last 28 years and will hopefully continue to do for the foreseeable future.
@David Singer “The former Jordanian Prime Minister, who made “peace” with Israel, just exposed the truth about why Jordan did it…’If we ever have military power, will we let them keep Haifa? We’ll take it,” Abdelsalam al-Majali said in a TV interview a few days ago…If tomorrow we become stronger and can take Haifa by force, will we really decline just because we have an agreement with them?”‘
August 30, 2018
https://www.israelunwired.com/former-jordanian-prime-minister-drops-bombshell-about-peace-with-israel/
“Jordan Reclaims Land Israelis Used Under ’94 Peace Accord
Israelis see the step as a reflection of the dismal state of relations a quarter century after the treaty was reached.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/world/middleeast/jordan-israel-lease-land.html
What’s not to trust?
By the way, if you’re looking for a great deal on a bridge, I’ve got a limited time offer in Brooklyn, just for you! 😀
@David Singer “The former Jordanian Prime Minister, who made “peace” with Israel, just exposed the truth about why Jordan did it…’If we ever have military power, will we let them keep Haifa? We’ll take it,” Abdelsalam al-Majali said in a TV interview a few days ago…If tomorrow we become stronger and can take Haifa by force, will we really decline just because we have an agreement with them?”‘
August 30, 2018
https://www.israelunwired.com/former-jordanian-prime-minister-drops-bombshell-about-peace-with-israel/
“Jordan Reclaims Land Israelis Used Under ’94 Peace Accord
Israelis see the step as a reflection of the dismal state of relations a quarter century after the treaty was reached.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/world/middleeast/jordan-israel-lease-land.html
@David Singer
And YOUR proposal is a recipe for destroying Israel and for a new Holocaust.
#Reader
Your proposal is a recipe for perpetuating the conflict.
Negotiations to implement the Saudi solution could see the 100 years-old conflict ended in six months – the only issues of real contention being:
1. The location of the border between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
2. Security control of the new entity’s territory west of the Jordan River.
No agreement – no Saudi Solution
You are apparently happy to continue seeing Jewish civilians being murdered and maimed in the forlorn pursuit of your racist and inflammatory “solution” .
I am not.
@David Singer
is to move all the Arabs out of the Green Line and Judea and Samaria to other Arab countries with monetary compensation (the Jews from the Arab countries already left them for Israel decades ago and were stripped by their Arab governments of all their possessions) and establish Israel within its Biblical borders.
For Israel, caving in to the piece by piece for the sake of peace initiatives is suicidal.
#mirib
Look at the 2020 Trump Plan which clearly shows how contiguity can occur by building connecting tunnels or overhead roads.
Restoring Hashemite rule to part of the territory illegally occupied by Jordan until 1967 will bring the following concessions:
1. Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel only
2. The 74 years old claim to the right of return to Israel will be abandoned
3. No new state between Israel and Jordan
4. Jews will gain recognized sovereignty in part of Judea and Samaria for the first time in 3000 years.
5. The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative will be abandoned.
6. The “conflict industry” headed by the UN, UNESCO, UNRWA and UNHRC and insidious NGO’s such as New Israel Fund, Breaking the Silence and B’tselem will be put out of business.
Huge dividends for Israel if able to successfully implement this Saudi Plan. Get behind supporting it as the best opportunity ever to end 100 years of conflict.
#Reader
In negotiations for establishing the new international border between Israel and the new entity to be called the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine – one could reasonably expect the 2020 Trump Plan to be used as a basis which provided for almost all Jewish towns and villages in Judea and Samaria to at the least come under Israeli sovereignty.
No Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine will likely eventuate if Israel does not retain security control of all the entity’s territory west of the Jordan River. Any attempt to push the Jews into the sea in breach of a signed agreement would be met by a ferocious response from Israel.
Well, that’s easy – by Israel’s “painful concessions for peace in the form of a unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria (AKA the West Bank) of hundreds of thousands of Jews (AKA settlers)”.
Right after the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is formed, the Arabs will attack Israel around the perimeter and in the middle aiming at both North and South of Israel (from the road between the West bank and Gaza cutting Israel at the waist) with their newly acquired American weapons (received because of all those wonderful Arab “peace accords” with Israel) in an attempt to push the Jews into the sea and/or slaughter them where they are.
Isn’t that what Condeliza Rice harped on, contiguous? How can that ever be worked out!? No to anything in Judea & Samaria. The Bedouwii kinglet must not be given back what he illegally occupied til 1967. Stupid! here, take back what you had that time. Maybe he can live in his palace he abandoned. Like you say, Ted, no diplomatic solution. Jordan is the falestini state ALREADY. All this
jockey-ing around is futile. I’m so sick of us caving, to our own hurt.