The Jordanian Confederation/Federation Plan as per the IDSF with Israpundit’s critique.

Israel Defense and Security Forum

Organizing principle:

Establishing a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation or federation between the Kingdom of Jordan and major Palestinian population centers in Judea and Samaria.

Rationale:  The affinity between the Kingdom of Jordan and the Palestinian population finds expression in a number of dimensions:

• Population: The Jordanian population includes about 10.5 million inhabitants (including refugees), of which between 70-80% are Palestinians. Jordan does not declassify the exact number, fearing political friction. The capital Amman, with 4 million inhabitants, is the world’s largest Palestinian city.

• • Area: Jordan is located on some 75% of the national home allocated to the Jewish people in the League of Nations’ San Remo Conference (1920). Between 1948-1967,  Jordan held Judea and Samaria as Jordanian territory, not recognized by virtually any nation. Israel took control of these territories in 1967.

• Until the 1988 “disengagement” (“Faq el-Ertebat”), the Palestinians living throughout Judea and Samaria held Jordanian citizenship. Since the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Accord, and formally and internationally since the 2015 “Kerry Agreement”, Jordan serves as the custodian of Jerusalem’s Holy Sites.
• The King of Jordan even proposed the “Federation Plan” in 1972, in which he stressed that the Jordan river’s East and West Bank do not inhabit two peoples but one sole people. It was only the 1974 Arab League resolution, which established the PLO as the Palestinian people’s exclusive representative, which forced Jordan to relinquish its insistence of speaking on behalf of Palestinians.
• Despite the Jordanian institutional suspicion toward the Palestinian population, and bloody incidents such as the 1971 Black September, such statements regarding the Palestinian-Jordanian affinity are consistently raised among Jordanian officials and certain moderate Palestinian voices.

Please read Jordan is Palestine Ted Belman (2022) and It’s not too late to make amends for this historical injustice.    T. Belman (May 29/22)

Outline:
• This Plan may be carried out under a variety of circumstances, that also depend on domestic Jordanian political stability. In case of the collapse of the Jordanian monarchy, it may be plausible to establish the State of Palestine in today’s Kingdom of Jordan, with enclaves in Palestinian population centers in Judea and Samaria. Alternatively, establishing a joint Jordanian-Palestinian confederation or federation between the Kingdom of Jordan and enclaves in Judea and Samaria.

I expect, on inside information, that the King will fall in August and that Mudar Zahran will become the leader of Jordan, He is totally committed to the idea that Jordan will become the Palestinian state. He will restore the Jordanian citizenship of all Palestinians as his first act and invite all Palestinians to emigrate to Jordan.

Once this is done, Israel can extend Israeli law to all the territories without fear of being called apartheid for not giving citizenship to the Palestinians living there. The law is clear.  There is no obligation to give citizenship to citizens of another country. In addition all convicted terrorists can be extradited to Jordan. Mudar understands this and expects it.

He wants to cooperate with Israel and not confront Israel. He is committed to replacing the PA in Areas A and B and Hamas in Gaza. Thus the Palestinians in these areas will be  subject to Jordanian law just as they are now subject to PA law.

He will also cancel UNRWA. and provide all refugees with the same benefits in Jordan. i.e., education, health and social security. Thus all refugees will be induced to emigrate to Jordan. There are about 2 million refugees in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.

He will rewrite all text books for Jordanians in A and B and in Jordan so that they will be taught the Jewish narrative as the truth.

It would be a big mistake to create a Palestinian state west of the Jordan in A, B and Gaza. Instead these lands should be leased to Jordan who will administer them in place of  the PA or Hamas. There should be no talk about such a state or confederation or federation.

He will ban the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and will ban Hamas and the PLO in A, B and Gaza. As administrator he will ship all members and terrorist to Jordan.  He knows that they are a danger to him also.

Thus the Palestinian State will be Jordan.

• A confederation is an alliance between two or more states, maintaining their independence and sovereignty while divesting symbolic aspects of their sovereignty to the confederation’s institutions.
• The Palestinian’s national ambitions will be addressed by having a Palestinian state in partnership with Jordan.
• Governance: The Kingdom of Jordan will be responsible over Palestinian state institutions in Judea and Samaria and will constitute a Palestinian-Jordanian government.
• Economy: The confederation will leverage this political partnership to boost the entities’ joint economy. Cooperation can range from water technology – a critical issue for both parties –through tourism to manufacturing and innovation.

Key to this arrangement is that Israel will boost the economy of Jordan, Rather than create economic zones in area C as Bennett, Bibi and Liberman all want, these should be build in Jordan to induce emigration..  We will also build a new city in Jordan for  one million immigrants and if successful a second such city. These houses will be given to the immigrants free of charge. They will only cost $16,000 per house plus infrastructure.. Doing so will also create a lot of jobs.

Currently Israel grants about 160,000 work permits..  We should require all recipients to emigrate to Jordan and then apply for standard 3 year working visas. In this way in time work permits will only be granted to Jordanians who have received temporary work visas.

Israel can also set up factories in Jordan to make use of the cheap labour.  Then Jordan will sell their products through out the Muslim world and beyond.

These are just some of our ideas.

Read:

The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution Ted Belman (2017)

Memo to Kushner, Ted Belman  (Feb 1919)

• Foreign aid coming from the Arab world and the international community will assist establishing new cities, factories and agricultural lands, making the desert flourish.
• A Palestinian state in Jordan, with all the symbolism and impact it entails, will be a magnetizing force for Judea and Samaria Arabs, many of whom having family ties with their Jordanian counterparts.

Evidence for practicality
• Jordan’s crumbling economy and the desperate need to spur the Palestinian economy will incentivize both economies to collaborate together.
• Jordan can be the Palestinian’ national home. This solution was not only feasible before Judea and Samaria Palestinians were stripped of their Jordanian citizenship, but actively promoted by the Kingdom of Jordan – including the 1950 West Bank annexation by Jordan, and the 1972 federation proposal.
• Palestinians do not benefit from their current position, of dependency on UNRWA and donor countries. This solution has the potential take them to the next level of autonomy and prosperity while remaining tethered to a country with deep Palestinian affinity