Implementing HKOPS has now become the key to Trump ending the Jewish-Arab conflict
David Singer , Bio and Archives--October 22, 2025
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President Trump’s confident declaration that the Israel-Gaza War is over has seen the State of Palestine envisioned and proposed by President Biden and adopted by the UN Security Council in Resolution 2735 on June, 10 2024 (Biden/UN State of Palestine) being buried in the rubble of Gaza:
The Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity (Trump Declaration) signed on October 13th by:
makes no mention of calling for the creation of the Biden/UN State of Palestine--or any other Palestinian State located between Jordan and Israel – only asserting:
The closest suggestion that any Palestinian state might still be possibly created appears in the penultimate point of Trump’s 20 point peace plan for Gaza released on October 1, 2025:
It seems to be a pathway leading to nowhere. Israel’s Knesset has already firmly rejected the creation of any Palestinian State between Israel and Jordan on July 18, 2024 by a vote of 68 to 9.
An alternative credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination is set out in the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) authored by Ali Shihabi--an adviser to Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman--published on June 8, 2022 in the Saudi Government-controlled Al Arabiya News :
The opportunity to include Gaza in this new territorial entity by linking Gaza to Judea and Samaria (West Bank) through Israeli sovereign territory has been lost following Gaza’s invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023.
Gaza’s residents however could still achieve the same status as Palestinians living in Lebanon.
HKOPS--initially presented in March 2020 to replace President Trump’s 2020 Peace Plan – was resurrected in 2022 – but has never been considered or even acknowledged by the United Nations as an alternative solution to the Biden/UN State of Palestine or any other two-state solution.
Implementing HKOPS has now become the key to Trump ending the Jewish-Arab conflict.
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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