West Bank Arabs face only 2 real options: (a) Hamas rule, (b) Jordanian rule

Submitted by G Marcus (United States), Jun 14, 2009 at 19:33

Option of Fatah rule in West Bank is none other than State Dept fiction and doesn't exist in the real world.

Only power keeping Fatah alive and preventing West Bank from turning into another Gaza overran by Hamas, is the Israeli army.

For West Bank Arabs therefore, there are only 2 real options to pick from:

(a) Hamas rule or (b) Jordanian rule.

Jordan, part of initial Palestine Mandate, was separated by the Brits in 1922 to create original Pal-Arab state and is today one of best-run Arab states.

Peace treaty with Egypt provides Israel with a demilitarized Sinai buffer.

Solutions:

- Gaza: Under some linkage to Egypt, needs to be turned into an autonomous Arab entity that can prosper as a Singapore/Dubai-like industrial/logistics hub on the Eastern Mediterranean.

- West Bank: In light of more complex geopolitics as well as looming Hamas takeover, parts of West Bank should to be linked to Jordan in some sort of federative structure; safeguarding security and settlements for Israel, demographics for Arabs, holy sites for both.

Egypt and Jordan face no alternative, because they can't allow adjacent Muslim Bros (Hamas) or irredentist (Fatah) regimes, respectively.

Any further "Palestinism" or 2-state solution on narrow sliver, will only ensure more war, bloodshed and misery, not hoped-for peace and will inevitably prove detrimental not only to Israel, but also to Jordan, Egypt, and ultimately to Palestinian-Arabs themselves.

The 2-state proposal doesn't make sense only if you think its aim is peace. It makes a lot of sense if you realize its aim is the dismantling of Israel as per the 1974 Phased Plan.

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