Dayan: Annexation 'not an option right now'
Yesha Council chairman Danny Dayan tells the Washington Times' Ben Birnbaum that annexing Judea and Samaria is 'not an option right now.' "I don't think that annexation is an option right now," he says. "It's not an option because of the international arena, because of constraints that we are well aware of. Also because of the question of citizenship for the Arab population and other practical questions. I think that every person that watches the developments understands that annexation is not within the range of realistic options Israel has."I'm willing to wait right now, because I think it will be a lot easier to accomplish if Jordan is more widely recognized as the 'Palestinian state.' But what happened in Tunisia over the weekend makes it much more likely that autocratic rulers in Jordan, Egypt, Algeria, Libya and other countries will eventually be displaced. If it happens in Jordan, you can bet that the 'Palestinians' will try to take over. And there would be nothing wrong with our backing them.
Though the proposition of annexing the West Bank has lost ground with Israeli voters in recent years, largely because of fears that a formalized "Greater Israel" would imperil the state's Jewish majority, it retains support among many settler activists and several right-wing Knesset members.
Mr. Dayan says that though he theoretically supports annexing the West Bank "in the long term," any such move would have to be preceded by a shift of "one of the major geopolitical parameters."
"For instance, I can foresee that if some day there is a regime change in Jordan, which is a country with a predominantly Palestinian population, that will be a major change that will open a whole range of solutions that today are not viable and suddenly will become viable."
He quickly emphasizes that he does not advocate Israeli action to precipitate such an outcome.
I don't buy the demographic time bomb nonsense, as most of you already know. I think Dayan pretended it exists in order to avoid making adverse headlines.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: annexation, Jordan is Palestine
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:42 PM
4 Comments:
As much as I want Israel to annex Judea and Samaria, I'm willing to wait too.
The King of Jordan has a "Palestinian" wife and "Palestinian" children so Jordan is headed down the path of being the real "Palestinian State" one way or another.
Israel SHOULD annex Judea and Samaria much sooner in one specific situation: If the Arab world and the "Palestinians" DEMAND a one-state solution, then Israel should say "FINE!" and call their bluff except that it would be a Jewish state with Fatah and the other terror gangs kicked out for good.
NO SHARING of power with the enemy - a one-state solution should be a Jewish state. The "demographic threat" has been debunked a million times so Israel's leaders shouldn't worry about it in a situation where there is one Jewish state.
The only reason the Arabs ask for a one-state solution is that they picture it with Abu Mazen sitting in the PM chair with an Israeli PM in full partnership. Israel can surprise them by saying "Hey, we're going with the one-state solution as you've requested but you're leaving, Abu Mazen." NO power sharing with the enemy!
Annex what you need, there's only a few Arab population centers. Cut the cord on them. If they don't recognize Israel, you don't owe them a thing.
Give the Palestinians Jordan, expel them across the River and leave the western half of Palestine to the Jews. I think the Palestinian Arabs would accept having a homeland on the eastern side if they could not have one on the western side. Its quite likely to happen in our lifetime.
If Palestinians want Israel now this would change why? Pali takeover of trans-Jordan could just whet their appetite for the rest of the Mandate eastwards. Mass expulsion into trans-Jordan would more likely proceed without expecting the Palestinians to be happy about it or much caring. It could get messy.
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