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There will never be an independent West Bank while Hamas walks the earth. They are the enemy of any West Bank Authority they do not control.

Of course, I am of the stated opinion that there will never be an independent West Bank in any case, no matter who wants it, no matter how many times it is announced, no matter how sincere the announcement. A West Bank separate from Jordan and Israel is destined, doomed, to be a lawless enclave, and lawless enclaves are destined, doomed, to be ruled by lawless men.

In such places, ordinary people who want to work and raise their families will always leave; the only ones who remain are those who have accepted to live under the rule of psycho killers, which means that the people who remain are complicit in their own misery.

On what, apart from Israel and Jordan, is the West Bank to base its economy? By what logic does the West Bank exist as an independent country, separate from Jordan and Israel? The old province of Palestine was divided into a sliver for the Jewish settlers and refugees, and the rest for the Arabs; the Jewish portion was named Israel, and the Arab portion was named Jordan. By definition any land not belonging to Israel, is Jordan. The disputed West Bank is either part of Israel by conquest, or a part of Jordan per the original partition, or will be under some kind of shared administration to be negotiated between Jordan and Israel, the only rightful parties to the dispute. If Jordan does not want to enter into the discussion, then the area falls to Israel by default. Aside from Jordan and Israel, no other countries have any standing in this discussion.

But in any case, neither Jordan nor Israel will ever be able to effectively adminster the West Bank while Hamas continues to operate. Job One is the annihilation of Hamas and anyone who wants to join them in Hades.