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Bring Jordan into equation
Bring Jordan into equation
Israel should shift responsibility for West Bank’s Palestinians to Jordan
Guy Bechor Published: 02.09.10, 00:45 / Israel Opinion
Just like it’s much clearer today that Gaza belongs to Egypt more than it belongs to Israel, as the Egyptians shut down the smuggling tunnels with a steel wall and open the Rafah Crossing, the time has come for the next phase in Israel’s disengagement from the chronic troubles that weigh it down. The time has come for Jordan to reclaim its historic role in respect to affairs in its West Bank. The Jordanians are screaming at every global platform, and rightfully so, that the Palestinian process must be advanced. If so, they should act on it as well. The time has come for them to also enlist to the cause. Israel did Jordan a favor in 1967 when it detached it from the Palestinian trouble, just like it did Egyptians a favor by detaching them from Gaza. This Israeli folly must end, at once.
The Jordanians are of course frightened by the prospect of going back to handling Palestinian affairs, just like the Egyptians were frightened and did everything to ensure that Israel does not disengage from the Philadelphi Route - but there is no escaping this. A tiny Palestinian state will not be viable, unless it has a direct and clear link to Jordan, which is home to a solid Palestinian majority in any case and where the heir to the throne himself is half-Palestinian. How can Israel do this? By opening the Allenby Crossing to a direct Jordanian-Palestinian connection, with no Israeli involvement. The moment this happens, all the security and political responsibility will shift to the Jordanians, a reality we’ve spared them for almost three and a half decades.
Yes, this may lead to terrorism, yet we know how to handle terror, as the IDF proved a year ago in Operation Cast Lead, when it pulverized Hamas and created deterrence for dozens of years to come. Today we also have the security fence. Continuing to take responsibility for the wellbeing of hostile Palestinians is no longer Israel’s business. The time has come to bring Jordan too into the equation, just like Egypt has been brought into the Gaza equation.
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