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Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine not dead yet

By David Singer - posted Monday, 4 September 2023

Saudi Arabia and Israel would be able to advance their negotiations for normalizing their relationship in consultation with President Biden who is anxious to see such a deal concluded within twelve months.

Whilst Biden continues to support the two-state solution – he would find it very difficult to reject HKOPS as a substitute solution for the two-state solution if Saudi Arabia and Israel have already agreed on the model for its implementation and are negotiating with Jordan, the PLO and Hamas on its terms.

Middle East diplomacy works in mysterious ways.

Preserving Palestinian claims to elect choosing to pursue the two-state solution or replace it with the HKOPS model agreed on by Saudi Arabia and Israel - whilst not holding up negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Israel on normalizing their relationship – could just be the latest example.

If so – well done to whoever came up with this neat solution to keep negotiations alive to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict.

The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution has a long way to run before being officially declared dead and buried.

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The author has a 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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About the Author

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.