Yesterday David Schach sent along that repulsive ad from Haaretz saying that Palestinians should be returned to Jordan, the Palestinian state. Well today he has dug up the actual plan behind the ad, put forward by Member of Knesset Arieh Eldad.
If you wonder what's wrong with Israel and what Zionism had done for the Jewish mind, here it is. Notice the arrogance at the end, the claim that the ability to follow through on this hateful plan is entirely in the hands of Israel. Nir Rosen says the elites of Israel have no clue about the world because they've been indulged, and he's right. Eldad:
This alternative plan should be based on the fact that the Palestinians have their own state already in Jordan, a kingdom – in which the Palestinians are at least 75% of the residents – created after the British Mandatory land of Israel was divided into two. The plan should focus on resolving the regional solution by settling the Arab refugees in Jordan and other Arab countries that absorbed Palestinian refugees after the War of Independence in 1948.
Setting up Jordan as a Hashemite-Palestinian country will enable all the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria – who are not refugees themselves – to become citizens of Jordan, turn Amman’s parliament into a parliament that represents the Palestinian people, and ultimately enable them to develop their national identity.
Any Arabs who do not take advantage of the opportunity to move to Jordan within the framework of refugee resettlement can be residents (as opposed to citizens) of the State of Israel. They would be able to manage civilian affairs in their urban and rural areas, without land contiguity. Such authority could include managing their economy, health, education, transportation, religion, agriculture and municipal areas.
Israel would exercise sovereignty over all territory west of the Jordan, receive exclusive authority over security issues in all areas of sovereignty, since Israel could never accept the existence of an army from another country west of the Jordan, with airspace sovereignty and full control of external borders ...
Those Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, and who are considered as "refugees" according to UNRWA's refugee lists, and those refugees who prefer to stay in their current residence even when they lose their refugee status as well as the economic benefits derived from it, may remain in residence. They will receive perennial processing and full Hashemite-Palestinian citizenship. They will vote for parliament in Amman, and will have full rights in social, municipal and agricultural areas of the economy, as well as education in their places of residence and ability to observe their religion.
...The key is making impossible a plan to build a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, as well as the formulation of alternatives. This is entirely in the hands of Israel.
This plan has been around in some form or another for a very long time.
and its still a racist and illegal as ever
Several friends of mine have asked that inane question, “Why don’t they just move to one of the other 22 Arab countries?”
Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon are at least as different as England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. And no one would suggest that an Englishman didn’t need his own country because he can always go to Scotland. (Lebanon, in fact, can be compared to Ireland during the Troubles, and it certainly wouldn’t have helped their situation to be infused with a load of Welsh refugees.)
Other countries, like Egypt and Iraq, speak different dialects of Arabic and have different histories and cultures, and Saudi is almost as foreign to a Palestinian as it is to an American.
No one would suggest that a Swiss German could easily be booted to Germany, that a Ukrainian could always pick up and relocate to Russia, or even that a man from Sicily shouldn’t be offended if someone bans him from his home island and forces him to move to Rome. Yet this argument is used constantly for Palestinians.
The ignorance displayed by such a query is breathtaking.
This is actually even less than the various plans to bring Jordan back to the West Bank, since it does not give the Jordanian government any form of control over any WB territory. The plan can be accurately summed up as:
Everything stays as it is, except we now call the Palestinians Jordanians.
The chance of this ever becoming reality is even less, if such a thing is possible, than that of all the other idiotic Jordan=Palestine fantasies. Generally speaking, the manner in which such “plans” are tossed around by right-wing Israelis tells us nothing about sensible solutions, but a lot about the total arrogance and ignorance of those making the plans.
James Glassman apparently did not get the memo.
He was beyond disgusting on C Span Washington Journal this morning, claiming that the US State Department was doing the work of the angels in building up Palestinian “institutions and economy,” which were “key” to a successful Palestinians state — part of the prescribed “two state solution.”
When a caller said, “The problem is that Israel oppresses Palestinians, denying them the freedom that you just said Libyans and Egyptians should have” etc., Glassman backpedaled:
“I disagree with your characterization of Israel actions toward Palestinians. . . the peace process is moving forward . . .peace could come tomorrow . . . .And of course, freedom comes eventually but first you have to have a functioning economy and institutions . . .”
Glassman is such a lying disgusting POS — my screen is in peril when his mug is on it.
This is pure bilge.
Imagine it the other way around
Any Jews who do not take advantage of the opportunity to move to Europe within the framework of refugee resettlement can be residents (as opposed to citizens) of the State of Palestine . They would be able to manage civilian affairs in their urban and rural areas, without land contiguity. Such authority could include managing their economy, health, education, transportation, religion, agriculture and municipal areas.
Palestine would exercise sovereignty over all territory east of the Mediterranean , receive exclusive authority over security issues in all areas of sovereignty, since Palestine could never accept the existence of an army of Jews from another country west of the Jordan, with airspace sovereignty and full control of external borders .
i can’t beleive haaretz ran the ad to begin with. where are all the screaming meanies who went after helen thomas.
and how many decades will it take til the eretz israel nutjobs start drooling over jordan. it’s part of eretz israel too ya know. what if there are ‘border skirmishes’? where the guarantee israel will ever declare a border? be satisfied? there isn’t. it’s against the religion of the extremists to stop settling.
Haaretz runs all sorts of scuzzy ads, annie. they might even need the money.
and selling ad space isn’t advocacy. remember the bus ads cancellation that we were upset about just a few days back?
Eldad’s father, Israel Eldad, was one of the leaders of Lehi.
Eldad is a resident of Kfar Adumiman.
Kfar Adumiman is not in Israel
Eldad is an ILLEGAL settler.
The very notion of an ILLEGAL settler being in the Knesset is rather like having Eichmann as a judge in the Nuremberg trials.
The whole plan is based on the idea that Palestinians are like Zionists, insofar as all that counts is getting a state.
As far as I can tell, what the Palestinians want is to be able to live freely in Palestine.
Part of the problem is that we’re failing to measure Israel according to the standards by which we measured the Germans. From 1933, the Jews of Germany were being strongly encouraged (and indeed helped, the Ha’arava Agreement) to leave for either Palestine or the US (with lots of other opportunities far more welcoming than Jordan including much of South America and parts of Africa). If it was wrong for the Nazis to do this to a population defined by religion, how much more wrong is it of the Zionists to do the same thing?