Above all else Israel needs to stop acting as an apartheid nation.
After that some progress may be possible.

Sorry, David. This is not down to Jordan but rather Israel. And as easy as with drawing now illegal occupation and the annexing of occupied territory!
Alan B.

@ ateday
It would be good if you could provide evidence for the outrageous slur of "aparthied" you claim is perpetrated by the Middle East's sole democracy. Last I understood from a visit to South Africa, "apartheid" is the treating of citizens differently according to race, religion, ethnicity etc.

@david singer
If what you say is true, then the time has come to rattle a few cages. Israel could start by divorcing from the Hashemites in Jordan and instead give responsibility of Islam's 3rd holy site to the House of Saud. What's the worse that can happen? That the House of Saud would be found to be as inattentive to pulling their weight as the Hashemites?

That's the problem with lawyers - they think that writing documents is equivalent to solving issues.

Is King Abdullah also responsible for failing to stop Chechen Russian-Muslims from raping Christian Ukrainian women and shooting their husbands?

With civil marriage, an integrated school system and separation of religion and state Israel can become a democratic nation, Jews and Muslims can intermarry to become one people and peace will have a chance.

Dear David F.,

«With civil marriage, an integrated school system and separation of religion and state Israel can become a democratic nation, Jews and Muslims can intermarry to become one people and peace will have a chance.»

If you want peace at any cost, then why not shoot (or nuke) them all:
I can assure you that dead Jews and Muslims will no longer be fighting, ever!

But could you suggest some less drastic measures that can also achieve peace, something more realistic, something that they are a bit more likely to accept, something less than converting them all into David-F clones, something that takes the mentality and aspirations of these people into account at least to some degree, something less than the total destruction of all these people hold most dear?