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By David Singer, published 14/11/2012The attempt to create two separate national identities and two separate peoples - Jordanians and Palestinians - have always been nothing but misleading and deceptive fairy tales.
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The proposal that Jordan absorb the West Bank is unrealistic for several reasons.
1. Jordan has had a confrontation with the Palestinians in the past & would not want more of them.
2. Israel does not want to absorb the Palestinians by giving them the right of return because Israel would cease to exist. The same is true for Jordan. It would be a matter of time before the Jordanian government would be overthrown if Jordan absorbed the West Bank. The new government would be probably more hostile to Israel than the current government.
3. It is in the interests of neither Jordan nor Israel for Jordan to absorb the West Bank.
4. The Palestinians were not consulted previously when the Balfour Declaration was put forth. Your solution is another one that would be made without consulting the people who would be affected.
You probably will generate another article iterating the same nonsense.