ICJ: blanket media coverage - Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Nil

Prominent and influential op-ed writers such as:

• Thomas Friedman at the New York Times
• Graeme Wood at the Atlantic
• Lazar Berman at the Times of Israel
• Daniel Pipes at the Middle East Forum

have refused my requests to analyse HKOPS.

This blanket wall of media and UN silence is still being maintained despite HKOPS - authored by Ali Shihabi - an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman - promising to end the 100 years-old Jewish-Arab conflict with these outcomes:

• Trashing the two-state solution proposed by the failed 2016 UN Security Council Resolution 2334 – calling instead for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one single territorial entity to be called "The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine"
• Superseding two previous Saudi peace proposals in 1981 and 2002 that called for Israel to withdraw completely from the West Bank
• Consigning to the diplomatic graveyard the creation of a separate Palestinian Arab State between Jordan and Israel - promoted unsuccessfully since 2002 by the Arab Peace Initiative
• Designating Amman - not Jerusalem - to become the capital of the proposed Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
• Abandoning any claimed right of return to Israel
• Granting Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and stateless refugees full citizenship in the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine with all the elements of sovereignty applicable to those Territories that belong to a fully recognized state in the UN

We are now witnesses to:

• The ICJ embarking on a long journey over many years to decide whether Israel has breached the Genocide Convention and
• The United Nations continuing to remain silent on considering HKOPS as a replacement solution for its own failed two-state solution.

Whilst including Gaza in the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine is now problematic:

• Unifying Jordan and part of the West Bank can offer Gazans the opportunity to voluntarily resettle there
• Implementing HKOPS remains the best solution to prevent the region erupting into widespread warfare

Yet the media does not consider achieving these humanitarian outcomes newsworthy enough to report on.

Go figure.