THE DEATH OF OSLO AND THE REBIRTH OF JORDAN-IS-PALESTINE

The “Jordan-is-Palestine” option for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict is an idea that was beaten into silence by Israel’s enemies. Critics denounced the concept as preposterous, yet the idea has been resurrected from within Jordan itself. Because Jordan embodies the concept of Arab self-determination as contemplated by the San Remo Conference & the Palestine Mandate, & because most Jordanians already identify as Palestinian, it is time to recognize it as the Palestinian homeland and scrap the current peace process.

Unlike relief organizations that seek to ameliorate the condition of wartime refugees through resettlement, UNRWA’s sole purpose is to maintain the statelessness of Arabs who became refugees in 1948, regardless of whether they now live in Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon or Syria. According to UNRWA, Palestinian “refugees” are those Arabs who established residency within the Mandate between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost their homes and means of livelihood during Israel’s War of Independence, and who now reside in areas where UNRWA services are available. No similar agency was created to serve the needs of the nearly 800,000 Jewish refugees who were summarily expelled from Arab-Muslim lands and dispossessed of whatever assets they owned in 1948, and who subsequently were taken in by Israel.
These “refugees” were not required to be native born or descended from indigenous ancestors. In truth, many were either immigrants themselves or the progeny of immigrants. Moreover, they were not expelled from an existing country that was innately “Palestinian” or that ever exhibited the trappings of national character. Indeed, no sovereign nation existed between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea from the time the Romans conquered the Kingdom of Judea until Israeli independence in 1948. There was, however, a continuous Jewish presence in the Land.

Jordan today is governed by a Hashemite minority that engages in apartheid-like discrimination against the Palestinian majority. It’s now time for the world to change it’s policy with the Palestinians. There are roughly five million Arabs now living in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria who identify as Palestinian, compared to only 1.5 million in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. Giving heed to this arithmetic reality, a growing number of Palestinians recognize that Israel will not accept an Arab “right of return” that would destroy her as a Jewish state, and instead believe their homeland should be established in Jordan.

Article by Matthew M. Hausman

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