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Security Council should adopt Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

By David Singer - posted Friday, 30 December 2022


Wennesland's recommendation will only see the conflict being indefinitely perpetuated – not ended.

The Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published on 8 June 2022 (Saudi Solution) has amazingly never been mentioned or discussed in the Security Council. It will dramatically "change the negative trajectory on the ground":

· It challenges the Security Council's pointless pursuit of the two-State solution by calling for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one territorial entity to be called the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine having its capital in Amman and being ruled by Jordan's current Hashemite ruler – King Abdullah

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  • The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and 2003 Oslo Accords are superseded.
  • Arab populations living in Gaza, the West Bank and the refugee camps in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon will become citizens of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine.
  • Sovereignty in the West Bank will be divided between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
  • Its author – Ali Shihabi – is a confidant of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and Prime Minister – Mohammed Bin Salman.
  • Publication of the plan in the Saudi Government –controlled Al-Arabiya News overrules current Saudi policy - strongly suggesting Mohammed Bin Salman's approval was first obtained.
  • King Abdullah (Jordan), Mahmoud Abbas (Palestinian Authority), Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas) Mohammed Bin Salman (Saudi Arabia) and Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) have not expressly rejected the solution in the six months since its publication.
  • Its successful implementation can end the 100 years-old Arab -Jewish conflict.

Adopting the Saudi Solution to replace the failed two-State solution is needed to arrest this worsening humanitarian nightmare.

 

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If you agree with the author you might be interested in joining his Facebook page "Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine supporters".

Author's note: The cartoon - commissioned exclusively for this article - is by Yaakov Kirschen aka "Dry Bones"- one of Israel's foremost political and social commentators - whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.

 



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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International - an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.

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