Posted on 8/16/2004, 11:43:43 AM by yonif
MK Benny Elon, whom Prime Minister Sharon fired from his position as Tourism Minister because of his opposition to the disengagement/expulsion plan, presented his "Jordan is Palestine" plan to Jordan's Prince Hassan.
Elon told Arutz-7 that his meetings with Hassan and other Jordanian officials took place several months ago in Jordan, while he was still a Cabinet minister. He said that the Prince said that his country would be hard-put to accept such a plan because of a "crisis of confidence" between Jordan and Israel. Hassan complained that Israel always gave precedence to diplomatic initiatives with the Palestinian Authority as opposed to with Jordan.
Despite this reaction, MK Elon feels that if and when the U.S. agrees to grant significant economic aid to Jordan, " our neighboring kingdom's leadership will view this plan much more sympathetically."
The Elon peace plan, entitled "The Right Road to Peace," calls for the residents of the refugee camps to be resettled in Arab countries, while other Arabs living in Yesha will become Jordanian citizens.
MK Elon, who headed Yeshivat Beit Orot in Jerusalem before entering politics - he succeeded the murdered Rehavam Ze'evi as head of the Moledet Party - hinted that his meeting with Prince Hassan was conducted with the consent of both Jerusalem and Amman.
MK Elon will depart tomorrow for the United States, where he will continue to promote his plan among American leaders. He will also meet there with Jewish and Christian leaders in an attempt to increase their awareness of the dangers and negative ramifications of the establishment of a Palestinian state in the Holy Land.
The Elon Plan, which is being distributed to all residents of Yesha this week, includes six clauses. They call for the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority, which Elon says is an "entity without a future, whose existence precludes the end of the conflict."
The plan also calls for Israel to take absolute steps to end Palestinian terrorism, including the collection of all weapons, dismantling of terrorist hotbed refugee camps, and the expulsion of terrorists and their accomplices.
The next step is international aid to Jordan in recognition of its role as the only representative of the Palestinian people. Long-term aid will be offered to Jordan/Palestine, to enable it to absorb a certain amount of refugees. Israel will become sovereign over Judea, Samaria and Gaza, with Arab residents - and later Israeli-Arabs - receiving Jordanian citizenship.
The last two stages of the plan involve an internationally-funded completion of the "exchange of populations" that began in 1948 between Jews of Arab countries and Arabs in Israel - including the complete absorption of the former refugees in the various countries. Israel and Jordan will then declare the end of the conflict between them and will establish full and friendly relations.
The plan makes clear that a small, sliced-up and crowded Palestinian state in the areas of Judea and Samaria, aside a threatened and narrow Israel - such as envisioned in the Road Map plan - is a sure recipe for war in the near future.
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Ok We're stilll running up against the problem of what to do with Gaza. I've taken a quick look and I don't see what the plan is going to do with Gaza.
OTOH this plan beats the heck out of what's going on now.
In my opinion, this is the only plan that will work.
I suggest that you ask the moderator to change the neutral-sounding title of this thread. The headline on the article on the website is:
Benny Elon Presented "Jordan is Palestine" Plan to Prince Hassan
Elon's suggestion is certainly a fair and feasible plan.
And what if populations do not with to be "exchanged"? Are people mere cattle to be moved about according to their race, religion, or ethnicity? Do not individuals have inalienable and equal rights to life, liberty and property in the land of their birthplace?
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