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Elon Peace Plan

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The Elon Peace Plan is a solution proposal for the Arab-Israeli conflict by Israeli tourism minister Binyamin Elon. It advocates the formal annexation of West Bank and Gaza by Israel and that the Palestinians will become citizens of Jordan.

Table of contents
1 Proposal
2 Underlying causes of the conflict
3 Reasons to include Jordan
4 Goals
5 Key Principals (Modalities)
6 Impediments to Implementation
7 External Links

Proposal

Binyamin Elon is the chairman of the Molodet party, which is known for its policy of "voluntary transfer". A primary motivations of the plan are

  1. the demographic trend that will make Jews a minority west of the Jordan River before the end of the first decade of the 21st century. The first step for solving this problem will be to declare Palestinian residents of the Territories to be Jordanian citizens and furthermore that
    Israel, the United States and the international community will allocate resources for the completion of the exchange of populations that began in 1948 and the full rehabilitation of the refugees and their absorption and naturalization in various countries.
  2. the successful use of population transfer, as pioneered by Nobel Peace Prize winner Nansen, to solve seemingly intractable conflicts.
  3. Palestinians have constituted a majority of the population of Jordan since the end of 2000 [1]

The Arab population that will continue to reside within the new areas of the State of Israel, will benefit from the civil rights conferred by Israel, but its citizenship will be Palestinian, and its political rights will be actualized in Amman. The actual administration governing the Arab sector will derive its authority from the Israeli sovereign, but will enjoy limited autonomy in a form to be determined in negotiations between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine.

Underlying causes of the conflict

  1. The Palestinian demand for the right of return of refugees to areas within the State of Israel.
  2. The rehabilitation of Palestinian refugees.
  3. The status of Jerusalem.
  4. The nature of the Palestinian state and its borders.

Reasons to include Jordan

Expanding the solution to include both sides of the Jordan River creates a new reality in which:

  1. Israelis and Palestinian Arabs can exist alongside one another in two genuine, sovereign states.
  2. A well-defined natural border would be established, far from population centers.
  3. Both states would have strategic depth and ample land reserves.

Goals

  1. An immediate permanent-status settlement to end the conflict.
  2. Full and comprehensive rehabilitation of Palestinian refugees.
  3. The granting of national expression and full rights for all Palestinian Arabs.
  4. Removal of the threat to Israel's existence as a Jewish state.

Key Principals (Modalities)

  1. The dissolution of the Palestinian Authority and the war on terror. [1]
  2. International recognition and internationaly funded economic development of Jordan as the Palestinian state. [1]
  3. Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza. [1]
  4. The rehabilitation of the refugees and completion of population exchange. [1]

Thus, he envisions "two states for two peoples" with one state on each side of the Jordan River, one of the few natural boundaries available for the creation of a stable border.

Impediments to Implementation

The plan has been criticized as being because:

  1. Jordan is no longer interested at all in incorporating West Bank Palestinians. West Bank Palestinians had/were offered Jordanian citizenship in 1948. In 1988 Jordan disavowed claims to the West Bank and revoked Jordanian citizenship of the West Bank Palestinians.
  2. Most Palestinians on the West Bank are not interesting in relocating voluntarily, and mass population exchanges have not normally occured unless preceeded by a period of sustained violence or even conventional warfare.
  3. Palestianians are unlikely to concede Jerusalem.

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