Abdullah-Biden meeting will not help resolve Jewish-Arab conflict

Jordanians and Palestinians are indeed one people. No one can divide us. We have the same fate. - Yasser Arafat Der Spiegel 1986

The Jordanians and Palestinians are now one people, and no political loyalty, however strong, will separate them permanently… Small as Jordan is, our country is politically, socially, economically, militarily and historically inseparable from the Palestinian issue - Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan Foreign Affairs Spring 1982

Palestine and Jordan were both under British Mandate, but as my grandfather pointed out in his memoirs, they were hardly separate countries. Trans-Jordan, being to the east of the River Jordan, it formed in a sense, the interior of Palestine – King Hussein of Jordan Uneasy Lies the Head, New York 1962 p. 118

This Organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or the Himmah Area – Article 24 Palestine Liberation Organisation Charter 1964

Jewish settlement - prohibited under article 25 of the 1922 Mandate document in what is today's Jordan – was encouraged under article 6 in the Disputed Territory on State land and waste land not required for public purposes. That right is preserved until today under Article 80 of the United Nations Charter.

Jordan's return to such part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) as is agreed with Israel in direct negotiations remains the key to ending the Jewish-Arab conflict.

Jordan - part of the problem - must be part of the solution.

Abdullah will continue to hide behind the two-state solution in his meeting with Biden.