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.
