Jordan enclave in West Bank could be Trump’s 'two-state' solution

• Control access and egress between the West Bank and Jordan
• Maintain security control for the entire area from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea
• Ensure the enclave be demilitarized and remain demilitarized

The enclave's residents would acquire Jordanian citizenship. Jordanian law would apply in the enclave – which could be divided into any number of electoral divisions whose residents would choose their representatives to sit in the Jordanian Parliament.

The PLO has already rejected Trump's peace plan – sight unseen – opening the door for Jordan – at peace with Israel since signing their 1994 Peace Treaty - to fill the negotiating void necessary to create this Jordanian enclave.

Israel's former Foreign Minister Moshe Arens presciently stated on January 11, 1989:

Jordan is a Palestinian state. And it is with Jordan that we must decide where the border will run…. Should the border follow the Jordan River, as it does today, or should it be west of the Jordan, as the Jordanians would like?"

I would suggest therefore that, when it comes to talking about territory there is only one negotiating party acceptable to the government of Israel. That party is the existing Palestinian state of Jordan.

Creating a Jordanian enclave in the West Bank with Israel annexing the remainder could be - in Trump's own words:

the ultimate deal …as a deal maker, I'd like to do…the deal that can't be made. And do it for humanity's sake.

Don't underestimate Trump's deal-making ability to end what he himself has called "the war that never ends".