By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--January 15, 2018
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"Jordanians and Palestinians are considered by the PLO as one people.‚"
"Jordan is also Palestine... I'm against two Arab countries and against another Palestinian country, against an Arafat state. Today 50 percent of the inhabitants of Jordan are Palestinians and that is the Palestinian state...Peres backed this up - telling the Jewish Telegraph on April 19, 1991:
"It is not obstinacy to regard the populations of Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza as having greater similarities than differences. The Jordan River is not deep enough to turn into a knife blade serving to cut one piece of territory into three slices. Most of Jordan's population are Palestinians: the residents of the West Bank are Jordanian citizens and Jordan has distributed tens of thousands of passports to residents in the Gaza Strip. Jordan is therefore an existing State. It has an army. There is therefore no need to set up another State, another army.3. Yitzchak Rabin told The Australian newspaper on May 27, 1985:
"One tiny State between Israel and Jordan will solve nothing. It will be a time bomb.‚"Rabin's solution to end the conflict:
"... the Palestinians should have a sovereign State which includes most of the Palestinians. It should be Jordan with a considerable part of the West Bank and Gaza. East of the Jordan River there is enough room to settle the Palestinian refugees.‚"Jordan-Israel negotiations on the political future of the disputed territory open up options to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict never before considered. If Trump's Jerusalem Declaration helps bring such negotiations about - then Trump could well succeed where all other American Presidents before him have failed. Taking on Trump could herald the PLO's political demise after 54 years of failed leadership.
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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 organization 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: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com