Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine offers Gazans hope post-war

The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) is shaping up as the only solution capable of providing the besieged population of Gaza with a better future after the Israel-Gaza war ends.

Published in the Saudi Government-controlled Al-Arabiya News on 8 June 2022 and authored by Ali Shihabi - an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman – HKOPS proposes:

Gaza, part of the West Bank and Jordan be merged into one territorial entity named "The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine"

• to be governed by Jordan's current Hashemite rulers and
• to have its capital located in Amman

HKOPS shreds the Saudi-inspired 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and United Nations 2016 Security Council Resolution 2334 which both call for the creation of an independent Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan – when it asserts:

Jordanians and Palestinians are as similar as any people can be. They are Sunni Arabs from the same neighborhood. Merging them will not create any long-term ethnic or sectarian fault lines.

The Security Council's failure between 8 June 2022 and 7 October 2023:

• to acknowledge the existence of HKOPS
• consider rescinding Resolution 2334 and adopting HKOPS

was incomprehensible.

So too was the complete silence of:

• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who failed to mention HKOPS once at his regular monthly meetings with the Security Council
• Tor Wennesland: United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary-General's Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, as well as the Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Quartet