Palestinian problem is not only Israel's problem

A rare article about an important issue: Palestinian problem is not only Israel's problem - it is not only Israel's fault and it is not in Israel's power to solve it.

The reason: majority of the Palestinians do not live under Israel's control: millions of them live in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Those in Jordan constitute Jordan's indigeneous population, as originally Jordan was a part of the Brtish Mandate "Palestine" intended to be split into Jewish and Arab (i.e. Palestinian) states.
Those in Syria and Lebanon are descendants of the refugees in the second/third and even fouth generations. They are technically designated as refugees, because neither of these countries is willing to grant the citizenship rights to people who were born in it, if these people have Palestinian ancestry.

These obvious facts are largely unknown to the "international community", which continues to insist on the "two-state solution", i.e. the resolution of the Palestinian problem at Israel's expense only. Israel undoubtedly will have to leave most of the West Bank territiries that it currently controls - this will solve the guilt problem for the Israeli left... yet, it will not solve the national problem for the Palestinians.

Solving Palestinian problem requires democratization of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and larger Middle East and giving the Palestinian people the full rights in the countries where they live now. It may also require re-unification of teh Palestinians living in Jordan and the West Bank (aka East and West Germany.)

This is not likely to happen soon, since the Middle Eastern dictators have all the reasons to hold to their power... and the enlightened West has all the reasons to support these dictators by insisting on the "two-state solution" and ensuring teh continuous flow of oil.

The article quoted in the beginning out lines the Jordanian King's efforts to disfrinchise the Palestinian people in Jordan of their citizenship rights:
"King Abdullah is seeking to complete the divorce proceedings between Jordan and the Palestinians which his late father, King Hussein, began in 1988.

The separation began in July that year, a few months after the eruption of the first intifada.

King Hussein realized back then that it was not in the interest of his kingdom to maintain a linkage to the West Bank, home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

His biggest fear was that the intifada would spill over into Jordan, where the Palestinian majority would rise against his monarchy. [...] 


In 2009, Amman quietly began revoking the Jordanian citizenship of thousands of Palestinians, triggering strong protests from human rights organizations and pro-Palestinian groups around the world. [...]

Talk in Israel and elsewhere about turning Jordan into a Palestinian state has also left the king worried about the future of his kingdom. That explains why he is not even prepared to receive 1,100 Palestinian refugees who have fled Syria in recent weeks, while at the same time welcoming more than 100,000 Syrians who crossed the border into Jordan.

The Jordanians have no problem absorbing tens of thousands of Iraqis, Syrians and Libyans. But when it comes to the Palestinians, it’s a completely different story. The last thing King Abdullah needs is another 500,000 Palestinians in the country. "