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Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: clearest path to peace since 2022

By David Singer - posted Friday, 28 November 2025

There is an alternative path to peace for Israelis and Palestinians not involving a two-state solution: Implementing a Saudi Arabian solution proposed by Ali Shihabi – an advisor to MBS himself – called the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) published on 8 June 2022 in the Saudi Government-controlled Al Arabiya News

HKOPS calls for Jordan, Gaza and part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to be merged into one new territorial entity based on this proposition:

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.

Shihabi appeared to be the front man promoting HKOPS - with MBS being the puppet master pulling the strings.

How can one otherwise explain HKOPS being published in Al-Arabiya News without serious personal repercussions for Shihabi - spruiking a solution that trashed the Saudi (Arab) Peace Initiative (2002) calling for peace between Israel and 22 Arab States in exchange for total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and the creation of a Palestinian State there?

Publically dissenting with Saudi Government policy is severely punished - yet Shihabi today still remains an advisor to MBS.

A clear path to peace between Israelis and Palestinians exists: Direct negotiations between Israel and Jordan to implement HKOPS by allocating sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) between their two respective States.

Trump and MBS should get Netanyahu and King Abdullah negotiating without further ado.

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The author has a Facebook page: "Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine supporters"

Author's note: The cartoon was drawn in June 2022 by Yaakov Kirschen aka "Dry Bones"- one of Israel's foremost political and social commentators – who passed away on 14 April 2025 and whose cartoons 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.