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Time Trump focused on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

By David Singer - posted Tuesday, 9 July 2024


However there was another idea which amazingly has somehow escaped Trump's attention: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution authored by Ali Shihabi - an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman - and published in the Saudi Government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022 calling for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one newly-merged territorial entity with its capital in Amman and being governed by Jordan's current Hashemite rulers.

The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution trashes the creation of an independent Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan proposed by:

  • Biden since May 2011 and
  • Saudi foreign policy and the Arab Peace Initiative since 2002 – which proposal Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is yet to expressly endorse but has not expressly rejected.
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Biden continues to push the failed independent Palestinian state solution – introducing and successfully causing the Security Council to adopt Resolution 2735 on 10 June - reiterating:

...its unwavering commitment to the vision of the two-State solution where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders, consistent with international law and relevant UN resolutions, and in this regard stresses the importance of unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority.

Should Trump follow Biden continuing to pursue a two-state solution that has gone nowhere or should Trump phone Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to ask whether the Crown Prince endorses Shihabi's Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution?

Biden's current indecision would soon disappear.

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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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