The Peel Comm recognized that Jordan is Palestine in 1937

This may not be 100% correct. I am seeking clarification.

By Ted Belman

David Singer reminds me that his plan is the mirror image of the Plan put forward by the Peel Commission in 1937.

The Peel Commission recommended two sovereign independent States be established in Palestine:

1. An Arab State – consisting of Trans-Jordan (now called Jordan) – 77% of the territory of the Mandate for Palestine – united with part of the remaining 23% of the Mandate territory  within which the reconstitution of the Jewish National Home was proposed in 1922

2. A Jewish State consisting of the remainder of the 23% of Palestine.

The only question is, what portion of J&S does the Palestinian state get to keep as part of their state.

And it seems, Boris Johnson, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, is on board:

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson – writing in the Daily Telegraph on 29 October 2017 – went even further:

“I have no doubt that the only viable solution to the conflict resembles the one first set down on paper by another Briton, Lord Peel, in the report of the Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937, and that is the vision of two states for two peoples.”

But considering that Jordan already has 77% of the Mandate and Israel 23%, why on earth should Israel give up any of her meagre portion to Palestine.

Like I say, Jordan is Palestine. Once this idea is accepted by more, how much, if any, of the remaining 23% should be much easier to negotiate. In fact when Mudar Zahran takes over Jordan, he will accept the Jordan River as the boundary between the two states.

March 5, 2018 | 8 Comments »
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  2. Zahran speaks for he opposition. How many Jordanians support the opposition? If they are willing and numerous enough to stage a coup to topple the monarchy, we should help them with support.

  4. Roslyn Pine Said:

    what guarantees are there

    dreuveni Said:

    What guarantees are in place

    {Comments like this always remind me of this Brecht poem altered to fit this context, Mad LIbs style, but I think the message is just as pertinent – SZ}

    [“Mad Libs consist that has a short story on each page with many key words replaced with blanks. Beneath each blank is specified a lexical or other category, such as “noun”, “verb”, “place”, or “part of the body”.[11] One player asks the other players, in turn, to contribute some word for the specified type for each blank, but without revealing the context for that word. Finally, the completed story is read aloud. The result is usually comic, surreal and somewhat nonsensical.”

    “Stern and Price’s original Mad Libs book gives the following sentence as an example:[12]”

    “_____________! he said ________ as he jumped into his convertible
    exclamation adverb
    ______ and drove off with his ___________ wife.”
    noun adjective]'”

    “Bertolt Brecht‘s poem, “The Buddha’s Parable of the Burning House,” relates a parable of the Buddha’s, found in the Lotus Sutra, to not fearing the changes which a revolution would involve.

    Guatama the Buddha taught
    The doctrine of greed’s wheel to which we are bound, and advised
    That we shed all craving and thus
    Undesiring enter the nothingness that he called Nirvana.
    Then one day his pupils asked him:
    “What is it like, this nothingness, Master? Every one of us would
    Shed all craving, as you advise, but tell us
    Whether this nothingness which then we shall enter
    Is perhaps like being at one with all creation,
    When you lie in water, your body weightless, at noon,
    Unthinking almost, lazily lie in the water, or drowse
    Hardly knowing now that you straighten the blanket,
    Going down fast –whether this nothingness, then,
    Is a happy one of this kind, a pleasant nothingness, or
    Whether this nothingness of yours is more nothing, cold, senseless and void.”
    Long the Buddha was silent, then said nonchalantly:
    “There is no answer to your question.”
    But in the evening, when they had gone,
    The Buddha still sat under the bread-fruit tree and to the others,
    To those who had not asked, addressed this parable:
    “Lately I saw a house. It was burning. The flame
    Licked at its roof. I went up close and observed
    That there were people still inside. I entered the doorway and called
    Out to them that the roof was ablaze, so exhorting them
    To leave at once. But those people
    Seemed in no hurry. One of them,
    While the heat was already scorching his eyebrows,
    Asked me what it was like outside, whether there was
    Another house for them, and more of this kind. Without answering
    I went out again. These people here, I thought,
    Must burn to death before they stop asking questions.
    And truly friends,
    Whoever does not yet feel such heat in the floor that he’ll gladly
    Exchange it for any other, rather than stay, to that man
    I have nothing to say.” So Gautama the Buddha.
    But we too, no longer concerned with the art of submission,
    Rather with that of non-submission, and offering
    Various proposals of an earthly nature, and beseeching men
    To shake off their human tormentors, we too believe that to those
    Who in face of the rising bomber squadrons of Capital go on asking too long
    How we propose to do this, and how we envisage that,
    And what will become of their savings and Sunday trousers after a revolution
    We have nothing much to say.

    This was published in 1949 in “Kalendergeschichten”, a collection of stories and poems which Brecht had written while in exile during the war. In English, “Tales from the Calendar,” translated by Ivonne Kapp and Michael Hamburger, London: Methuen, 1961.
    —
    https://whatdoesdemocracylooklike.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/bertolt-brechts-interpretation-of-the-buddhas-parable-of-the-burning-house/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs

  6. What guarantees are in place to insure that Zahran will be able to take over Jordan. Right now, that looks like wishful thinking. All the other factions will want their share of Jordan too and the probable result is civil war with Israel patching up the wounded as before.

  7. First, it may be overly optimistic to think Zahran will take over.
    If he does what guarantees are there that he will be able to keep his word, or will want to?