Jordan to revoke citizenship of PA, PLO officials

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Its a shame because the only really viable long term solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict is a Palestinian dominated Jordan/West Bank federation. A Palestinian state on the West Bank alone is not really a realistic option. The Jordanian monarchy and traditional elite are in denial about their country being a de facto Palestinian state. Demographics don't lie and it's too late to change the facts on the ground.

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Arabic Transjordan and Zionist Cisjordan may have been the original two-state solution, but it's not going to work now, even if it ever could have.

Thats always been a naive idea. But a Palestinian state on both sides of Jordan could work if the monarchy were replaced with a democratic republic controlled by the Palestinian majority. It will take a revolution in Jordan of some kind to achieve it, but it would change Palestine from a quasi-state squeezed between hostile Israel and suspicious Jordan to a viable entity with some control over its own destiny. Hard to see it happening, but that goes for all possible solutions to that particular coflict.

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Do you not think a Hashemite monarchy would have legitimacy in, say, a constitutional monarchy controlled on the parliamentary/Government level by the Palestinian majority? If so, why do you think that? I'm not terribly familiar with this subject.

There is a deep distrust towards the Hashemites among Palestinians. They are seen as the representatives of the descendants of the original Bedouin population in Jordan and working against empowerment of the Palestinian part of the population. The Black September massacre in 1970 alone would make it impossible for the Jordanian royal family to become the leaders of a Palestinian dominated state.