There needs to be some sort of a compromise deal reached between the Israelis and the Palestinians over a sovereign state for the Palestinians ASAP.
Otherwise there can never ever be a viable and long lasting peace settlement reached that is going to end the current conflict that has been going on over in the region for the past few decades.
The idea that there be a separate piece of land set aside right next door to Israel is never going to work simply because if there were ever any type of infringement from either side onto the land rights of the others the problems would commence once again almost right away.
Accordingly, both parties would then be back to square one and the current and past difficulties would once again inflame the region.
There has been a load of talk recently that there is going a meeting in September of the respective parties that is effectively going to reach some sort of a compromise deal over a separate Palestinian state. That's next month for those who are as yet unaware of just what month we are in at the moment?
At the stage of this writing there are no real details available as to just what is going to be put forward to resolve the difficulties in the region. The whole point being there is really no one who knows at all with any real certainty if there is going to be any positive outcome as a result of those talks at all?
However, bearing in mind what else is going on in the world the facts seem to point to a successful conclusion to the conflict and if that is the case then there will be a Palestinian state created as a result, and out of these talks.
Even though I am running ahead of myself here slightly, if there is a successful result that comes out of these talks then there is also an extremely good chance there will be some form of a covenant (or treaty) reached that is also going to see an end to the decades long conflict in the region.
For those who are unaware of just what I am referring to is that what I think may be the result of a deal that is reached over a separate Palestinian state, (if there is to be one at all) will be the covenant of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27, confirmed by the Antichrist.
King James Version
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
There is no way at all that the writer of this piece is either pro Israeli or pro Palestinian. As far as favoring either one of the other of the respective parties concurrently warring -- I am neutral. As such do not side with either one of them.
To do so would be to be nothing more than bigoted against the side that I am not favouring, which is not unlike a lot of so called Christians who seem to favour Israel in the conflict for whatever reason I cannot understand. There is really nothing at all in the word of God that says they should do so.
There is news that is now beginning to come through there may be some form of a deal reached by Israel creating a Palestinian state in Jordan. If that were the circumstances of the matter then the compromise deal that I have mentioned above may as yet just come to pass after all? Now read on....
Israel may create the Palestinian state in Jordan?
The Hashemite dynasty in Jordan is ripe for overthrow, and Israel should push it. Democratic elections will empower a Palestinian majority in Jordan; two-thirds of Jordanians are Palestinian, and Jordan is by all logic a Palestinian state. Few monarchies survive, and it is wishful thinking to hope the Jordanian dynasty friendly to Israel will last. A reckless government in Iraq or Syria might try to annex Jordan. In an Arab-Israeli war, Jordan would be of little use to Israel as a buffer; even if technically neutral, it could not stop Iraqi troops from crossing its territory.
The Jordanian dynasty is the lid on the simmering kettle of Jordan's Palestinian society. The Palestinian majority in Jordan resents its inadequate status. The dynasty relies increasingly on brute force and seeks both American guarantees and fundamentalist Islamic approval to shore itself up. That precarious balance will not last. If a Palestinian majority seizes power in Jordan, Israel should exploit the situation while she can.
Israel should re-evaluate the earlier plan of establishing a Palestinian state in Jordan, reducing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute from Palestinian statehood to the inclusion of the West Bank in their state. A Palestinian state in Jordan could be viable, unlike an insultingly small state in the West Bank, and not the source of perpetual anti-Israeli sentiment among Palestinians. Israel could promise secretly to help Palestinians stage a Putsch in Jordan in return for annulling Palestinian claims to Jewish Judea and Samaria. A semi-democratic, popularly supported Palestinian government in Jordan would be better for the West than an unstable, unpredictable monarchy. Now Israel has a chance to promote the coup: Jordan's Palestinian population is increasingly hostile to Western influence. Polls indicate the support sinking to four percent after the second Iraqi war. The Jordanian government listens to its Palestinian subjects, even to the extent of refusing to air the Shared Values commercials designed to convince Muslims that America is after Islamic terrorists, not Islam. Jordan does not curb anti-Israeli and anti-Western propaganda in its press and universities. It accommodates Israel because it fears reprisal and the United States for protection against Iraq. With Saddam gone, Jordan has little reason to side with the United States.
The West supported Kurdish independence from Iraq, at least autonomy, but is content for Turkish Kurds to remain Turkish citizens. The same logic applies to the Palestinians: transform Jordan or part of it into the Palestinian state and leave the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under Israeli sovereignty. Chomsky’s argument—that resettling Palestinians in Jordan is akin to suggesting Jews have their own jurisdiction in New York—is off base. Jews are not a majority in New York. Even if they were, they could not make it secede. New York is much farther from Israel than Jordan is from Palestine. Relocating a few dozen miles to Jordan does not affect Palestinian national aspirations. Insisting on a separate Palestinian state in the territories is like the Jews demanding a piece of New York for an independent Jewish state, in addition to the one they have in Israel. The Jordanian option is by far the most practical solution of the Palestinian problem.
The idea has legal sanction. Everyone understood that the initial arrangement under the British mandate established a Jewish Israel in all the territory of the mandate, including Jordan, but in 1922 the Council of the League of Nations excised what was to become Jordan from the Jewish homeland. Only when a British-affiliated tribal dynasty usurped power in Jordan was it necessary to carve out additional territory for the Palestinians living on land already allocated to Jewish Israel.
Sharia also sanctions ethnically homogenous states. Quoting the Prophet’s dictum, “Let there be no two religions in Arabia,” Caliph Umar relocated the Jews to Palestine and made it an preserve for non-Islamic groups in the region. Since most Islamic scholars say pious Muslims cannot live among infidels, Palestinians have no stake in the territory Umar gave to Jews—and, theoretically, to Christians as well.
