Another reason why an independent Palestine isn't realistic

Submitted by PezDispenser (Israel), Aug 26, 2016 at 10:26

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8740/demilitarized-palestinian-state

The article above from Gatestone makes the case that enforcing demilitarization in a future Palestinian country will be legally impossible.

My conclusion is that this reinforces the idea of the Jordanian option. Similar to the Camp David Accords, Israel could strike an accord with Jordan to keep the area demilitarized but it can't with a Palestinian country. Maybe it is time to consider stopping the talk about a "Palestinian (big S) State" and start talking about a "Palestinian (small s) state" as a province within a federal Jordan.

By the way, it seems that since the sales pitch of 1993 ("Oslo is a reversible experiment") was not the only baloney sold to the Israeli and international public and that this point is huge but rarely discussed.

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