The Significance of Ireland, Spain, and Norway’s Recognition of a Palestinian State

Time ^ | 5/22/24Ga | Yasseen Serhan

[Petrosius]

The West Bank so called was originally part of Jordan. They lost it in the 1967 war.

Actually the West Bank and Gaza were the remnant of what, according to the UN partition plan, was suppose to be the Arab half of a divided Palestine. After the Israeli War of Independence the West Bank was administered by Jordan but never incorporated into the kingdom. But the point, though, is that there is a Arab population living in the West Bank that is not going to go away. Israel has two choices, either annex it and grant citizenship to the Arabs, or surrender it to the Arabs living there as an independent country.

I know that both options would be hard on Israel but the continued unresolved occupation is not sustainable. It only radicalized the Arab population more. Notice that this radicalization is not happening with the Israeli Arabs, nor with the Jordanians and Egyptians. It has been more than 50 years since Israel captured the territories. It is time for a final settlement: either two separated states for the Jews and the Arabs (the original UN partition plan) or one for both populations.