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Trump’s PLO shutdown paves way for Jordan-West Bank reunification : Comments

By David Singer, published 1/10/2018

Reunification of a large part of the West Bank with Jordan is now once again tantalisingly within Jordan's grasp.

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The key to justice and peace lies with racist Israel, which is characterised by its "Law of return" based on the fiction that it is "the Jewish homeland" when it contains only a minuscule proportion of the world's Jews most of whom live in the rest of the world with no pretension of being God's chosen overlords.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Monday, 1 October 2018 2:00:47 PM
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EJ,

You've heard of the diaspora ? Various compulsory diasporas, actually, since Babylonian and Roman times. And pogroms ? The massacre at York ? The Jewish people were not called 'the Wandering Jew' for nothing.

So the unification of the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan may be on the cards. How terrible could that be ? Yes, it takes away the PLO and Hamas' aim of driving all Jews into the sea, itself a manifestly racist goal.

But on the other hand, it might lead to peace at last in that part of the Middle East. All good.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Monday, 1 October 2018 2:29:36 PM
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There are 6.8m in Ireland as a whole , not all being ethnic. "By the 21st century, an estimated 80 million people worldwide claimed some Irish descent, which includes more than 36 million Americans who claim Irish as their primary ethnicity". Holy Ireland ruled Russia under JFK who died in battle , losing the Bay of Pigs but beating Nikita the Atheist , bless him it was a miracle to be sure and all. The king of Jordan will trump that , looked over Jordan, what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
A band of angels coming after me
Coming for to carry me home.
Posted by nicknamenick, Monday, 1 October 2018 3:24:24 PM
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I think the Palestinians ought to accept this one ASAP.

As it ends the deadlock the bloodletting for no purpose and the illegal settlements?

It also installs a much more benign master? And may even lead to an autonomous region and regional autonomy?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 1 October 2018 5:13:34 PM
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Israel will evacuate all illegal settlements and protests about returning to Jerusalem will stop ? Or Israel gets 50:50 with Jordan , and Palestine raises a tomb-stone to its own death?
Posted by nicknamenick, Monday, 1 October 2018 5:24:09 PM
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Dear Julian,

«the fiction that it is "the Jewish homeland" when it contains only a minuscule proportion of the world's Jews most of whom live in the rest of the world»

Depending how we count Jews, 43.4% of the Jews live in Israel, which is not minuscule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country

If we count only those who in fact identify as Jews, I believe that Israel has the majority.

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Dear Joe,

«So the unification of the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan may be on the cards. How terrible could that be ?»

That would be absolutely disastrous for Jordan:
Jordan's population is 9.95 millions.
There are 4.2 million "Palestinians" in the West Bank and Gaza (without counting the Jewish settlers, a problem unto their own).
This would be equivalent to adding 10.5 million not-so-nice citizens to Australia!
And no one in their right mind would agree to it.

- Better keep the "Palestinians" and the Jewish settlers (those of them who wouldn't voluntarily return to Israel once it withdraws) in their cursed territories, lock them up there and build a big wall around, so whatever they do to each other inside is out-of-sight and out-of-mind.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Monday, 1 October 2018 10:39:07 PM
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