Let Egypt manage Gaza and Jordan manage Judea-Samaria
Former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton says that the idea of a “Palestinian” state is stillborn and proposes an idea that actually does look good, or at least better than current situation:
“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.”
Despite of the fact that I do believe that all Eretz Yisrael, that includes also Gaza, Judea and Samaria, should form the State of Israel, Bolton’s idea is much closer to the solution that any two-state idea. It seems that in current rate Israel will never have Judea, Samaria and Gaza as part of the state anyway, and there also cannot be any two-state solution because Hamas is only willing to have a one state – Hamastan – solution.
But Bolton’s idea is a good one because it would solve many problems with “Palestinians”. If Gaza was ruled by Egypt and Judea-Samaria by Jordan, the terrorist groups won’t have any reason to attack Israel any more, because the “occupier” would not be Israel any more. If the entire purpose of Arab terrorism against Israel is really, as they say, “fighting the occupation”, then they should be either fighting Egyptian-Jordanian rule, or at least stop fighting against Israel. That would on the other hand bring peace and prosperity to Israel.
(Let me note just in case that I personally don’t think terrorism against Israel would end, because first of all, Hamas wants the whole Eretz Yisrael, and second, terrorism against Israel is motivated by hatred against Israel.)
Also, we should be reminded that when Gaza was part of Egypt and Judea-Samaria part of Jordan, the “Palestinians” never made any attempts to form a state or declare independence. Most of Judean and Samarian Arabs are even nowadays citizens of Jordan and many Gazan Arabs citizens of Egypt. For those people it would mean the return of status quo before the Six Day War, more or less (because Israel would never give up Jerusalem).
As Mr Bolton says, Hamas has killed the idea of two-state solution and now we should start looking in other directions.
But there is one “but” still. Nor Jordan or Egypt want Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Because it’s needed for the Arab existance to have an enemy to fight against, and it is so bloody convenient to have Israel as that enemy.
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This is an old idea and one that gets circulated every 5 years or so. It was referred to in Netanyahu’s book, A Durable Peace, and in other notable works about Israel. Personally, I favor the approach because it would force non-state actors into the framework within which states act. Egypt and Jordan, respectively, would have to be responsible for the acts of the various Palestinian militias, para-military groups, thugs, and gangs.
However, for that and other reasons, it won’t fly. While Jordan might be willing to step into the more quiescent West Bank, Egypt would only double its current problem with radical Islam by taking over Gaza. Finally, Palestinians themselves have begun to believe their own press clippings since the Six Day War, where they discovered they were a separate “nationality” — even though, as you point out, they had never previously clamored for independence from Arab countries on the grounds of national self-determination. That only came once Israel occupied such areas after the war.
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