By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--November 27, 2023
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President Biden’s thinking continues to be extraordinarily influenced by New York Times (NYT) Foreign Affairs Opinion columnist Thomas Friedman.
On November, 14th Friedman advised Biden to:
On 18 November Biden duly did Friedman’s bidding--publishing an Opinion article in the Washington Post:
Sorry to disappoint you Mr President--you are flogging a dead horse that has been around for 20 years--has gone nowhere--and will continue to go nowhere.
As I have pointed out in many previous articles--this dead horse belongs to Thomas Friedman--who wrote an article in 2002 detailing his personal involvement in helping formulate the two-state solution--an independent Palestinian Arab State between Israel and Jordan--which was adopted by Saudi Arabia and the Arab League as the Arab Peace Initiative shortly thereafter.
On December 23, 2016 the United Nations resuscitated Friedman’s going-nowhere 2002 solution--after Vice-President Biden and President Obama obligingly failed to veto Security Council Resolution 2334 --enabling Friedman to keep pushing his solution for the last seven years.
I understand how hard it is for Friedman to acknowledge that 20 years of his life has been wasted unsuccessfully flogging his passionately-held solution to end the Jewish-Arab conflict.
It happened to me after I began writing in 1974 that Jordan comprised 76.9% of former Palestine--leading to my founding an international movement--the Jordan is Palestine Committee--in 1980--calling for Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to be divided between Israel and Jordan.
I was devastated when the 1993 Oslo Accords put paid to my solution.
All I could do thereafter was cop it on the chin.
So I began writing articles on how dangerous an independent Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan would be for Israel--that there was no need for a second Arab state--in addition to Jordan--in former Palestine.
Imagine my surprise when my 1980 Jordan is Palestine solution--on steroids--was miraculously resurrected on June 8, 2022 with the publication in Saudi Arabia of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS)--authored by an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS)--calling for the merger of Gaza, part of the West Bank and Jordan into one territorial entity.
HKOPS trashed the 2002 Friedman/Saudi /Arab League plan and its United Nations 2016 resuscitator.
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I wrote to Friedman on August 30, 2022 requesting he write an article about HKOPS.
He refused.
I sent Friedman my article dated December 5, 2022 which queried:
No response.
President Biden--the road to peace after the Israel-Gaza War involves you:
Please join my 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 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