The presumed upcoming negotiations to redraw the lines between Jordan and Israel splitting up the former West Bank which Israel liberated from illegal Jordanian occupation during the Six Day War when Jordan entered the war, despite Israel pleading for them to remain neutral, almost a day after the actual conflict part of the war had started, resulted in their loss of the regions west of the Jordan River. Technically, this land reverting to Israel control should have been the end of the matter. The Arabs residing there with Jordanian citizenship, which was all of them, should have been repatriated into Jordan and everything ended and solved. The world saw things differently; Israel must not be permitted to be victorious and the laws of nations where a nation which gains lands in a defensive war, which the war with Jordan most definitely fits the definition, may retain such lands and even more-so when retaining such regions provides a natural defensive barrier which the Jordan Valley most definitely meets as a requirement. This becomes even more valid when one also takes into consideration that the original border proposed by the British and presumably enforceable under International Law between the Jewish State and the Arab State (Jordan) was to be the Jordan River. Read the San Remo Conference, then the League of Nations Mandate and the Churchill White Papers, which guaranteed the border as the Jordan River. All of this has nothing to do with why the negotiations between Jordan and Israel will fail, if they even are to be permitted in the first place.
President Trump has this huge Western societal blind spot when it comes to Islam and, particularly, the Arab forms of Islam which unfortunately includes Iran despite the Persian population’s desire to be excluded from their current society and desire in large part to return to their former religion of Zoroastrianism. President Trump is deeply versed in the Western ideal of The Art of the Deal, if you will pardon the unavoidable use of his book title. He has no idea about the Arabian and Islamic concept that the world is divided into two spheres, Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harab, the world of Islam which lives in peace as it has been perfected and the world of war which has yet to have been forced to submit to the superiority of Islam and requires being conquered. This results in their believing that Islam is superior in all ways including the regions of ideas, science, thought and especially warfare. Further, they believe that Allah would never permit any lands that had once fallen to Islam to ever be ruled by any leadership which is not Islamic in nature. Even diving deeper, the Jews are cast in the Quran as inferior beings who are, at best, hardly truly human and are to be hunted and destroyed by Islam as it is the will of Allah. These ideas are found in greater variants and extreme hate in the Medina verses of the Quran which have abrogated anything sweet and loving which may have been found in the Mecca Quran which was written earlier. An introduction to the contrast between the Mecca and Medina Quranic Verses can be read at the link with numerous further readings included in many of the comments. One fairly well-known verse of condemnation of the Jews is included in the Hamas Charter which goes, “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.” All of what Islam stands behind is completely abrogated by the existence of Israel, and as such, Israel must be completely and utterly destroyed of its Jewish influence and the Jews killed or completely subjugated. This is why peace is completely out of the question and thus none of the Arab nations are permitted under the Arab League to make peace with Israel. Egypt was suspended from the Arab League from 1979 through 1989 due to their making a peace with Israel.
This leads people to ask if the Arab League has altered their hateful positions concerning Israel as they did not expel or suspend Jordan for making peace with Israel and permitted Egypt to return as a member. The answer is a definitive no. They altered their means for the destruction of Israel as they realized that pitting Israel against the entirety of the Arab World made Israel David and the Arab World as Goliath and thus Israel was too easily seen sympathetically. Thus, when Jordan made their peace with Israel, they relegated their illegally possessed lands west of the Jordan River to Israel. They then claimed they released their claims only to the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian claims changed from claiming all the lands west of the Jordan except the region possessed by Jordan to demanding a state in the lands formerly held by Jordan. This slowly morphed into Israel conquered the lands possessed by Jordan actually from a state called Palestine, a complete and total mythical imaginative place clearly made of pure political cloth. Through this transformation, the Arab World supported the Palestinian cause with funding and weapons along with great amounts of propagandized fabricated untruths. Their propaganda resulted in today many people echoing the fallacy that Israel actually conquered the nation of Palestine which existed in the regions of the Shomron and Gaza, the two regions illegally held by Jordan and Egypt from 1948 through to the June 1967 Six Day War when Israel liberated these regions which were legally set aside by the League of Nations Mandate system which was later taken on for enforcement by the United Nations through Article 80 of the United Nations Charter. Suddenly, Israel became Goliath and the Palestinians were the new David. The Arab League began a boycott of Israel enforced on every member nation. This boycott of Israel became through propagandized inventions to the current BDS Movement used to attempt and force nations and companies to join the formerly purely Arab boycott of Israel.
Israeli and Jordanian Flags
Back to the presumed coming negotiations which will be held between Israel and Jordan where their borders will be redrawn once more with Jordan taking political and security control of the Palestinian Arab regions in the Shomron with Israel presumably being allowed to retain some of the Shomron region and this will bring peace. How such could occur will be based upon the recent op-ed article in the Jordan Times on August 12, 2018 by retired Jordanian Ambassador and former editor of the Jordan Times, Walid Sadi, stating, “First of all, the unity of the West Bank with the East Bank was officially and constitutionally adopted on 24 of April 1950. No one disputes this fact. The Constitution of the country at the time was the 1952 Constitution, which stipulated in no uncertain terms that no part of the Kingdom shall be ceded, period. This provision makes the 1988 decision to cut off all legal and administrative relations between the two banks stopping short of ceding the West Bank to any side whatsoever. Any other interpretation of the 1988 political decision is absolutely untenable constitutionally.” Simplified, Jordan is now claiming that the lands of the Shomron which they renamed the West Bank still is legally claimed by Jordan and could not have been ceded to Israel or even the Palestinian Authority and thus still belongs to Jordan legally as far as the Jordanian government and their King are concerned.
With this established, or at least placed into the mix, this makes it now possible to have Israel and Jordan negotiate peace with no need to include the Palestinian Authority who have already stated in no uncertain terms that they refuse any negotiations which include the Trump administration or the United States, as the United States because of President Trump cannot be trusted as a neutral arbiter. President Trump has taken them at their word and has now attempted to include Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in place of the Palestinian Authority and thus allow for a final peace agreement to be molded. Initially, Jordan refused to enter into these negotiations demanding that President Trump take whatever necessary steps to placate Mahmoud Abbas, Saab Erekat, and the rest of the Palestinian Authority polity in order to reach an honest peace. Egypt and Saudi Arabia both stated they were willing to work with Israel in order to establish an honest peace providing the terms were satisfactory with the demands made by Mahmoud Abbas, Saab Erekat, and the Palestinian Authority polity. Translated, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are willing to be just as implacable as the Palestinian Authority. They were actually stating the proper and honest position of the Arab and Islamic worlds when it comes to peace with Israel, namely that they will accept any peace in which the Jews no longer are permitted to have power or hold political positions or any power. Egypt and Saudi Arabia both stated that the refugee situation would need to be dealt with adequately and to the satisfaction of the refugees. That is code for flooding Israel with five to eight million Arab Muslims refugees who have been taught to hate Jews to the point that they would instantly start murdering the Jews upon arrival within Israel, which is the sole solution which is considered acceptable despite the impracticality.
Obviously, President Trump has utilized threatened adjustments in the carrots and sticks promising to remove one and replace it with the other to bring the Jordanian leadership, King Abdullah II at the foremost, to negotiate with Israel and accept his initial plan. This does not in any way mean that such negotiations will proceed within any projected path expected by President Trump. The Jordanian representatives will very likely have some preceding demands for Israel to provide proof of their honest willingness for peace by giving up some concessions which the Jordanians will demand are necessary before anything else can begin. We predict that they will include but not be limited to their retaining complete control over the Temple Mount, Cave of the Patriarchs and other Jewish holy sites which they will claim are actually Islamic holy sites, demand continuity over the areas which they will retain, their capital city of the province as East Jerusalem, and very likely that the initial position be recognized that all of the contested lands actually and truly are property which belongs to Jordan, that anything Israel may receive will be because Jordan is willing to cede these territories and all lands under Jordanian control must be made Judenrein. These demands are actually a disguise of the exact determination they desire as the final peace and by having Israel agree to these as the initial positions, then all Jordan need is refuse every proposal and then at the end cash in these concessions and they will have regained all the lands they had lost in 1967 and can then resume shooting at Jews from East Jerusalem and any of the hilltops in the Shomron and things will return to the horrors of 1948 through 1967 when Israel liberated these lands. One can only pray that President Trump will flatly refuse to pressure Israel to make any of these concessions and in reality, Israel should take certain steps as soon as it appears that such negotiations are to be coming in the near future.
The very first thing that Israel must do is to eject the Jordanian Waqf which has slowly strangled out the rights which Jews and other non-Muslims used to have over time. Jews, Christians and anybody else were permitted to pray and freely enter and enjoy the Temple Mount after 1967. Over time, the Waqf has imposed rules slowly ever accelerating their restrictions as they found the Israeli government complacent to these changes. We have written about this subject numerous times including Enforced Status Quo Equals Anti Jewish Status, History of Jerusalem and Status Quo Incompatible, Just Try to Understand the Problem, Temple Mount Is Not and Never Has Been at Status-Quo, Time to Climb the Temple Mount for All People, Temple Mount Status-Quo Not so Static Though also Status-Quo is not holy; the Temple Mount is Holy. As you can tell, the Temple Mount and the creeping Sharia disguised as the status-quo has been a hot topic issue with us. The main thing to remember is that the entirety of these actions were facilitated by the Palestinian Authority but only at the direction of the Jordanian Waqf which answers to the leading Imams in Jordan, the Jordanian leadership and is directly answerable and directed by King Abdullah II himself. This is also the exact leadership which will be directing their negotiating team and who will sit in judgement and decide if any plan will actually be accepted.
The one item which is of upmost importance is that there be no preconditions, no Israeli concession demands permitted, and at no time should Israel be forced to accept any Jordanian demand just to continue the negotiations. If any of these items is permitted and accepted by President Trump or attempted to be foist upon Israel, Israel must take a page out of the Arab playbook and simply walk out of the negotiations and then face whatever pressures will come from virtually every direction. Israel must insist that peace cannot equal suicide and Israel will not permit the world to force her to return to the pre-Six Day War boundaries known also as the Green Line. An Israeli return to the Green Line would guarantee a new Arab Israeli War which would be kicked off by a barrage of various sized rockets raining down upon the greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area resulting in horrific destruction and tens if not hundreds of thousands possibly even millions. The death toll after an hour of rockets with payloads from as small as ten kilograms to a couple kilotons of high explosives with the larger payloads targeting the towers in central Tel Aviv causing numerous collapses, would decimate Israel. These are fifty story plus tall buildings, dozens of them, collapsing each one with many thousands working inside daily. This would also destroy most of the Israeli power generation and grid, possibly break containment on a number of nuclear power plants, destroy Ben Gurion International Airport and hundreds of civil aircraft from numerous nations across the world. They could also do grave damage to a number of the military airfields and much of the communications grid within Israel crippling the Israeli military response and ability to call up reserves and coordinate military responses. Yet, the Green Line as a final border between Jordan and Israel will be exactly what Jordan will demand and might not even be the final demands they could insist upon. The deal breaker will be what it has always been, the five to eight million Palestinian Arab refugees who are descendants mostly of the original six-hundred-thousand Arabs who deserted Israel at the behest of the Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, the Islamic leader for the Third Reich, friend of the top Nazi brass, commander of two SS Battalions in the Balkans and was in Berlin making broadcasts to the Arab world demanding for the Arabs to join the Nazis and assist them in cleaning the world of Jews by murdering every Jew in the Arab world. We admit that some were also cast from within Israel by the IDF largely due to their assisting the Arabs by attacking IDF positions and supply lines or permitting Arab special commando units to hide in their villages and carry out raids behind the lines. Some few were innocents, which is one of those horrors of war which are all but unavoidable.
In conclusion, the initial meeting will be difficult as the Jordanians will most definitely demand that Israel make concession and accept certain preliminary truths from which the negotiations will begin. It is possible that President Trump will pressure Israel to accept these preconditions and possibly even make some of the concessions assuring Prime Minister Netanyahu that these are just to get the negotiations started and if the negotiations fail, then these concessions and accepting of certain preconditions will be voided. The truth, no matter what President Trump promises, once Israel makes any concessions and accepts any preconditions, they will be made permanent by the United Nations, the European Union, the Arab League, and probably 135 of the nations from the General Assembly. This apparent tidal wave backing the position that once Israel gave its word, no matter any idiotic promises from President Trump, they must become permanent because the nations will insist that with negotiations all concessions and accepted preconditions are a permanent set of principles. They will claim that there are no take backs once you leave the schoolyard playground and just because President Trump still believes in schoolyard rules does not mean that the rest of the world accepts such. Then come the condemnations of President Trump and Israel berating both until they collapse accepting the reality that Israel lost, boo-hoo.
When the eventual result of forcing Israel back to the Green Line, this will be the sole result that any Arab entity will accept if they are being generous. The other reality is any peace which the Arab world makes with Israel will not be a guarantee in any form that peace has been attained as long as there exists a Jewish State. The real and only final peace with Israel is the peace of the grave, simply because the Arabs believe that these lands were once Arab and Islamic so they must remain Arab and Islamic and if the Jews desire to reside in these lands, they are welcome to become Dhimmis living under Islamic rule for as long as the Arab masters are comfortable. Should the Arabs become uncomfortable with the Jews in their presence, they would be free to slaughter them and under Sharia such is perfectly legal. Isn’t it fun playing in the Arab and Islamic mind and so simply marvelous. We truly wish the Muslims who desire peace and acceptance of others had even the slightest chance of ever transforming Islam as Christianity transformed during the Reformation. We can hope, but the truth is that Islam had their reformation from which the concept of abrogation was adopted placing the Medina verses as superior to the Meccan verses, as we referred to above with a link giving an introductory explanation. These verses were far more violent and exclaimed the superiority of Islam over all other faiths and Sharia as the end set of rules for the entirety of the world which inevitably would fall to Islam and all would be subjugated surrendering to Allah. These verses also further made Allah as preferring Muslims and abjuring all others. This was the result of the first Islamic reformation which also places all followers of Islam to fit in one of three spheres. The holiest and highest sphere were those who took up Jihad and were the warriors who would conquer the world, the next circle were those who financed these wars of conquest and the final and lowest circle were those who assisted the Jihadists by hiding them, granting them shelter and providing the necessary needs of the moment while the Jihadists were preparing their attack. Any Muslim not placing themselves somewhere in support of Jihad were to be considered almost acting as seriously against true Islam as an apostate and were to be treated such that they would suffer similar fates.
Beyond the Cusp
Beyond the Cusp 