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Biden & UN must rethink two Arab States in former Palestine

By David Singer - posted Thursday, 4 July 2024


Obama and Biden opted to keep their idea of an Arab state between Israel and Jordan alive in the United Nations by abstaining on – rather than vetoing - Resolution 2334.

Now seven years later the creation of another Arab state between Israel and Jordan has proved impossible to achieve – but Biden has not given up.

Since 2022 a proposal from Saudi Arabia authored by an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has been urging a different approach – arguing for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one territorial entity based on the fact that:

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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.

Its time Biden and the Security Council started discussing implementing this Saudi-based solution, the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution, before the region explodes into one giant killing field.

 

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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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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.

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