By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--April 25, 2023
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Visits to Saudi Arabia this past week by Jordan’s King Abdullah, PLO President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh could be the prelude to negotiations with Israel to implement the Saudi-based 2022 Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (Saudi Solution) and end 100 years of unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs.
These three visits --coming within days of each other --have taken place amidst dizzying diplomatic and economic activity over the last six weeks that have seen an easing of tension in the Middle East --including:
“keenness to exert all efforts towards enhancing regional and international peace and security”
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu believes these Abbas and Haniyeh visits to Saudi Arabia and the rapprochement with Syria are:
“Maybe to tell them they are going to have to prepare themselves--maybe to try to tell them to stop doing the kind of terror they foment”
The Saudi Solution achieves that outcome --calling for:
The common denominator existing between King Abdullah, Abbas, Haniyeh and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) since the publication of the Saudi Solution on June 8, 2022 has been their failure to expressly reject the Saudi Solution--even though it trashes separate policies and agendas espoused by each one of them for decades.
For MBS in particular--the Saudi Solution:
Successfully implementing the Saudi Solution will establish a conflict-free zone in Israel, Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) --complementing MBS’s amazing economic plans for Saudi Arabia --dubbed Vision 2030--including trillion-dollar investments in mega-developments Neom and Diriyah.
King Abdullah, Abbas and Haniyeh have also unsuccessfully pursued the two-state solution since the 1993 Oslo Accords. Implementing the Saudi solution offers them a return to what actually existed --and worked --between 1950 and 1967.
Three major hurdles to implementing the Saudi Solution have been resolved in principle in the Saudi Solution:
Security control of all the territory west of the Jordan River is the last major issue requiring resolution.
Ending conflict in the Middle East--not perpetuating it--has become Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic agenda.
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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