Draft:The Jordanian option

The "Jordanian option" is the designation of several different alternatives and approaches that arose from the Six Day War until today to find a solution to the problem of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the territories of Judea and Samaria in the form of a settlement with Jordan.

== The beginning of thinking about the Jordanian option as a way to resolve the conflict was in June 1967, with the IDF's takeover of the West Bank territories, which until then had been controlled by the Kingdom of Jordan. == The Jordanian option has had different interpretations over time, ups and downs. The various interpretations ranged over a continuum of possibilities that ranged between these extremes:

Jordan, east of the Jordan River, is the only state of the Palestinian people and there is no place west of Jordan for any entity other than the State of Israel.

Israel must withdraw from all the territories it conquered in 1967, including East Jerusalem, and return them to Jordan, from where they were conquered, thereby renouncing the need to settle the "Palestinian problem".

Over the years, the Jordanian option has seen ups and downs, with the most influential events being:

The London Agreement signed in 1987 between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

Hussein's announcement in 1988 of severing ties between Jordan and the West Bank.

Years later, some saw the Jordanian option as a possible solution to the conflict: in 2004 Dr. Dan Shiptan spoke about this option, in 2016 Saber Plutsker wrote about it, and in 2022 the Saudi analyst Ali Shihabi published an article in which he claimed that the only realistic solution The Palestinian problem is the expansion of the Hashemite Kingdom so that it will include territories from the West Bank and its name will be the 'Hashemitic Kingdom of Palestine'.

Along with strong opposition reactions were voiced in the Arab world against the idea, words of support for it were published by Zionist Jews from Australia, who expressed the hope that the Israelis would give up their arrogance and leverage their economic and military success into a move that would bring the conflict to an end.