Islamic Jihad eases way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Islamic Jihad has demonstrated once again how it and other similar terrorist groups can freely exist in Gaza smuggling in weapons from Iran through Sudan and Sinai and target Israel without any attempt being made by Hamas to stop them.

The Hashemites could hardly be expected to fare any better.

Jordanian Member of Parliament Imad al-Adwan's arrest on April 22 - while carrying 12 rifles and 194 pistols in his car - at an Israeli-controlled border crossing will strengthen Netanyahu's demand for total security control of all territory west of the Jordan River, including the Arab population of the newly-created Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine living there.

The failure of:

• Jordan's King Abdullah
• PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas
• Hamas Leader Ismael Haniyeh
• Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and
• Benjamin Netanyahu

to reject the Saudi Plan since its publication 11 months ago could see Israel's security concerns being agreed to allowing the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine to become a reality.

Expediting negotiations to implement the Saudi Plan will reduce increasing tension in Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) that could trigger a major humanitarian disaster.

Netanyahu's decision to delay demolishing an illegal Bedouin encampment, Khan al-Ahmar, indicates Israel's willingness to end, not perpetuate, conflict.

It would be a tragedy if this game-changing Saudi-based solution was consigned to the garbage bin of history before negotiations to successfully implement it have been fully exhausted.