By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--June 22, 2020
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"The stance that I have carried today is the Kingdom's historical position: Attaining the rights of our brothers in Palestine to freedom and a full Palestinian state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital on the June 4, 1967 lines is the only means to realise a just and comprehensive peace".Safadi's statement of Jordan's historical position was false. No Palestinian State--"full" or otherwise--was ever contemplated during Jordan's illegal annexation of the West Bank between 1948 and 1967. To the contrary Jordan extended Jordanian citizenship to all the Arab residents of the West Bank from 1954 to 1988.
"'We told Trump we will not accept his project, the 'deal of the century,' which has become the 'slap of the century'. But we will slap back. "We do not take instructions from anyone, and say 'no' to anyone if it is about our destiny, our cause, our country and our people… 1,000 times no,'"Trump answered the PLO by progressively:
"Palestine and Jordan were both under the British Mandate, but as my grandfather pointed out in his memoirs, they were hardly separate countries. Trans-Jordan being to the east of the River Jordan, it formed in a sense, the interior of Palestine"Abdullah's uncle Prince Hassan has written:
"Small as Jordan is, our country is politically, socially economically, militarily and historically inseparable from the Palestinian issue"Trump would be acting in conformity with article 6 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the UN Charter which designated the West Bank as part of the area in which the Jewish National Home was to be reconstituted. Ominously for King Abdullah however--article 2 of the PLO Charter also confirms that the West Bank and Jordan form part of one indivisible territorial unit. Jordan faces interesting times ahead. 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. His cartoons can be viewed at Drybonesblog.
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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