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| West Bank land wonÂ’t give Israel security: Jordan |
| 2011-05-28 |
| AMMAN - Israel will not gain security by holding on to territory beyond what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called its “indefensible” 1967 West Bank border, Jordan’s foreign minister said. It's worked so far... Netanyahu said this week he was ready to withdraw from parts of the West Bank, captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, to reach peace with Palestinians. But he dismissed a call from U.S. President Barack Obama that the pre-conflict borders should form the basis for talks on creating a Palestinian state. “I have serious reservations about the Israeli prime minister saying these lines are indefensible and we cannot go back to them,” Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told Reuters in an interview in the Jordanian capital Amman. “It is peace that will bring Israel security ..., not increasing the width of Israel or finding a military solution to defending the borders of Israel.” Peace would be great, but the Arabs won't let Israel have peace. So land works. In a speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, Netanyahu also urged Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to “tear up” last month’s reconciliation pact with the Islamist Hamas movement, promising to be “generous” with West Bank land if Abbas would make peace. Abbas replied that Netanyahu was offering “nothing we can build on” for peace. “The basis of (a) Palestinian state should be the 1967 lines, with agreed land swaps subject to agreement between the two parties,” Judeh said. “We in Jordan are not just an observer in this. It is the supreme Jordanian national interest to see this independent Palestinian state established on Palestinian soil.” And not on Jordanian soil... Jordan ruled the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, before the June 1967 war and most of its population are of Palestinian origin. It says the main issues in peace talks — Palestinian refugees, borders, security, water supplies and the status of Jerusalem — all have an impact on the Hashemite kingdom. Jordan signed a peace accord with Israel in 1994. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Jordan should either step up and agree to take the West Bank back (except for West jerusalem) or shut up. At least Israel would then have a target when the Pals acted up. Israel really blew it when they didn't expel the Palestinians following (a) the War of Independence (b) the 6-day war (c) Yom Kippur war (d) all of the above. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-05-28 12:51 |
| #2 Jordan ruled the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, before the June 1967 war and most of its population are of Palestinian origin ..which is the point ignored by the usual suspects. Where was the Paleo independence and sovereignty issue then? Why did it become a cause celebre only after both Jordan and Egypt [for Gaza] figured out they weren't going to be able to get the land back after the '67 war? /rhet questions. |
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