Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister - Mohammed Bin Salman - needs to break his ten months' silence by answering this one pressing question definitively and without further delay.
Maybe the issue here is that big transformational ideas are too difficult to implement in this region, and historically convenient alliances will always triumph?
Deborah - The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine is not as transformational as you think. It actually existed between 1950 and 1967 when the east and West Banks of the Jordan River were unified into one territorial entity and Arabs on both sides of the Jordan became Jordanian citizens - the newly-unified entity being renamed "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" - replacing the then existing name since 1946: "The Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan". This would have probably still have been the position today if Jordan had heeded Israel's warning and not entered the Six Day War. In essence this Saudi Plan is a return to the status quo that existed on 4 June 1967 - but in a much smaller area that then existed + Gaza. Incidentally the PLO agreed to Jordanian sovereignty in this entity in its original 1964 Charter. Perhaps this is the reason both the PLO and Jordan have not rejected the latest Saudi solution since its publication 10 months ago.
Maybe the issue here is that big transformational ideas are too difficult to implement in this region, and historically convenient alliances will always triumph?
Deborah - The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine is not as transformational as you think. It actually existed between 1950 and 1967 when the east and West Banks of the Jordan River were unified into one territorial entity and Arabs on both sides of the Jordan became Jordanian citizens - the newly-unified entity being renamed "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" - replacing the then existing name since 1946: "The Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan". This would have probably still have been the position today if Jordan had heeded Israel's warning and not entered the Six Day War. In essence this Saudi Plan is a return to the status quo that existed on 4 June 1967 - but in a much smaller area that then existed + Gaza. Incidentally the PLO agreed to Jordanian sovereignty in this entity in its original 1964 Charter. Perhaps this is the reason both the PLO and Jordan have not rejected the latest Saudi solution since its publication 10 months ago.