[NCDoc]

If the nations of the world were interested in stability (and some justice for the Palestinians), the West bank should be ceded to Jordan and the Gaza strip to Egypt. I can't think of anything as potentially destabilizing to the region as a Palestinian state headed by Arafat. Its first likely victim would probably be Jordan, anyway.

[DentsRun]

If the nations of the world were interested in stability (and some justice for the Palestinians), the West bank should be ceded to Jordan and the Gaza strip to Egypt. I can't think of anything as potentially destabilizing to the region as a Palestinian state headed by Arafat. Its first likely victim would probably be Jordan, anyway.

But would Jordan take the west bank? Someone posted a message here last month saying that Jordan's decision to cede the west bank was the wisest decision that country every made. He may have been right.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If the nations of the world were interested in stability (and some justice for the Palestinians), the West bank should be ceded to Jordan and the Gaza strip to Egypt.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. You have described the exact situation that existed before the Arabs invaded Israel in 1967. The only 'stability' that might result from this that it's proposers might desire is to put all the Jews into nice, stable, cemeteries.

[dread78645]

the West bank should be ceded to Jordan and the Gaza strip to Egypt.

Gaza to Egypt --should turned completely. Agreed.
The West bank is more troublesome because of the aquafier.

A treaty that protects the western recharge zone would have to have a couple of western countries as guarantees against a regime change in Jordan (UN ? Nahh).
And even if Israel did accept it, why would King Abullah of Jordan want to bring in 2.1 million radicals with a declining GDP ?

That's some major arm twisting (with a big foreign aid carrot) by the US.

I don't think anyone is going to want to do this.
But next year, after the Iraqi game, the sums may be different ...