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| Jordan and Egypt should take over Palestine - Bolton |
| 2009-01-06 |
| Former acting US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Monday that settling the Arab-Israeli conflict on the basis of a two-state solution was no longer workable and suggested splitting Palestine between Egypt and Jordan. "Let's start by recognizing that trying to create a Palestinian Authority from the old PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] has failed and that any two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn," Bolton wrote in The Washington Post. "Hamas has killed the idea, and even the Holy Land is good for only one resurrection." Hamas won parliamentary elections deemed fair by international observers in 2006 but was boycotted by the West for refusing to give up armed resistance against Israeli occupation. A two-state solution has been officially adopted as the basis for solving the Middle East conflict by all interested parties, including Israel and the administration of US President George W. Bush, in which Bolton has served. But he now argues that the peace process is "obviously not progressing ... probably going backward." "Instead, we should look to a 'three-state' approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty," says the former ambassador, who now works for the American Enterprise Institute, a hard-line pro-Israeli think-tank in Washington. "Having the two Arab states re-extend their prior political authority is an authentic way to extend the zone of peace and, more important, build on governments that are providing peace and stability in their own countries," he wrote. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 They would take the land but not the Palestinians. What about the Saudi Empty Corner? It's empty |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-01-06 19:42 |
| #14 Correction, they should take Palestinians |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-06 11:27 |
| #13 Egypt and Jordan aren't that stupid. |
| Posted by: Spot 2009-01-06 10:41 |
| #12 per Sandmonkey 4 reasons not to give Gaza back to Egypt http://www.sandmonkey.org/2009/01/04/give-ghaza-to-egypt/ |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2009-01-06 10:23 |
| #11 Look at a map. The place to put the Paleos is self evident. After all you want them far away from where they are now in a similar environment. Cut out a little piece of desert on the Algeria, Mali border and set them up there. You could give them a piece the size of Jordan all to themselves. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-01-06 09:45 |
| #10 What's Bolton got against Egypt and Jordan? I still think the best bet is to acquire Baja California from Mexico and give it to Israel. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-01-06 09:34 |
| #9 take Lander County Or maybe Clark County. (About the only thing I find of use in Las Vegas is the airport.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-01-06 09:17 |
| #8 There is a reason both countries passed up the opportunity to absorb the Paleos into their countries in the 50s. They know the Paleos are just fucking nuts. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-01-06 08:25 |
| #7 I like John Bolton. He is brilliant and courageous but I think his plan is pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking. King Abdullah, though married to a Paleo beauty, would probably decline the "honor" of making west bank Paleos his subjects. Also, Mubarak would have to be crazy to want to incorporate the Gazan cesspool into Egybt. Gaza makes the qatb oriented moslem brotherhood look moderate by comparison. No, I don't think either state would want to injest that noxious poison....now the good King may want a piece of Jerusalem, but the rest of the west bank......thanks, but no thanks. |
| Posted by: Sonny Ebbeamp1305 2009-01-06 08:02 |
| #6 This could only work if the Jordanian and Egyptian governments guarantee they will enforce peaceful behaviour on their respective Palestinians. Which I am quite certain the governments won't want to do in the face of popular rebellion against the very idea of reigning in the Palestinians, whom they've been taught for generations are the front line and key issue against that horrid Zionist entity. Israel has tried this before, I believe, with no interest from the governments in question. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-06 07:54 |
| #5 I say we give Lander County, Nevada to them. Just move them all to Lander County, we can call it Palestine, they can have a country bigger than their current country and everyone can be happy. Or maybe the Israelis would take Lander County. God, I wish someone would. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2009-01-06 03:13 |
| #4 His plan is horrible .... until it is compared with all the other plans. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-01-06 02:16 |
| #3 Or the one state solution w/ the Pali survivors deported to Iran. I hear Neptune is lovely this time of year. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-01-06 02:03 |
| #2 Or the one state solution w/ the Pali survivors deported to Iran. Or Malaysia. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-01-06 01:59 |
| #1 Interesting, but I don't see ISRAEL accepting this schema unless EGYPT agrees to share and give up at least 1/2 of the Sinai desert with Israel. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-06 01:44 |