Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine & Saudi-Israel peace deal on hold

Implementing HKOPS could happen very quickly - involving negotiations that would mainly have to only focus on:

• The new international boundary to be drawn between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
• The security arrangements to be put in place in relation to all the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine west of the Jordan River.

President Biden needs to explain why he stubbornly clings to the two-state solution as the basis for ending the Jewish-Arab conflict that still remains unresolved after more than 100 years.

Biden has supported a two-state solution since he was Vice President in 2011 – after President Obama had declared:

The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.

Time Biden recognised his favoured solution was going nowhere after 12 years and backed its replacement with the revolutionary and game-changing Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution which he has not mentioned once in the 14 months since its publication.

Meantime as Biden and MBS pussyfoot around ending the Israel-Arab conflict divisiveness among Israelis and the threat of another war to eliminate Israel hangs heavy over the region.