Jordan Option, Israel’s Legal Rights, and Compensated Emigration – Belman

Peloni:  This was Ted’s introductory comment to his Second Symposium, Jordan: Past, Present & Future

JORDAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: The Jordan Option Revisited

By Ted Belman (First published July 11, 2022)

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May 21, 2025 | 9 Comments »

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  1. @fquigley

    The Jordan option was a flight of fancy by Belman.

    Beyond making a completely malicious ad hominem attack on the long time editor and owner of this site, your insult is are completely WRONG!

    Ted was a thoughtful and meticulous personality, an innovative visionary whose whole focus was upon pursuing what was practicably possible and for which he provided the facts, figures and research with which to support the reality of the fact that Jordan is Palestine. The Jordan Option would have turned out the imagined fallacy of the TSS which replaced this fact, which is likely why it was so egregiously maligned as you are trying to do once again.

    The JO is and remains the only prospect for a sustainable peace, with an equitable consideration of both the Jewish and Arab decedents of what was once described as Mandate Palestine. All other paths taken will inevitably lead to war, instability and the continued process of abusing the Jewish state til nothing remains of it.

    If war were the only possible path by which we might proceed, then we should simply continue the process as it has been applied over the past decades, but the reality is that the JO is both doable, manageable and practical. It is based on the research and considerations developed by Ted and Mudar Zahran, and it only lacked the required support of the US and Israeli establishment to bring about the many benefits which have thus far been eschewed behind such abusive statements as the one you made in your comment below.

    If you have a critique of Ted’s work which is not similar to the ad hominin comment which you made in your previous post, please share it. But if you make one more ad hominem libel about the man who presented us all with the means by which to converse and interact on these and other meaningful subjects, I will moderate your comments without hesitation or further warning. Be aware.

  3. @Ted Of course, it’s a gamble that more would be motivated by economics than nationalism or religious fanaticism. Still, it’s the only game in town. Everything else is a dead end.

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  4. British Corruption: • “The original text of the Balfour Declaration had read “Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people.” The text was changed to read “the establishment in Palestine of a Home for the Jewish people.” The single word “in” was used subsequently to justify removing all of Transjordan from the British Mandate that resulted from the Balfour Declaration. – [President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, 1949, p 257]

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  5. Oslo accounted a 3-state in Palestine as a 2-state, disregarding the British 2-State Mandate of 1948. The question of Rocket-Science Math arises:
    How many 2-States in Palestine = A 2-State in Palestine?

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  6. There is no “Jordan option”
    In halakha Jordan is a river
    The land on the eastern bank is the Land of Yisrael just like on the right bank.
    Churchill had no jurisdiction to create an Arab state, never mind a ‘kingdom’
    Any discussion is a waste of breath

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  9. I wanted to correct a mis-statement of mine in this talk. ..I said if 130,000 refugees emigrated to Egypt every year for 10 years it would be 1% of the Egyptian population yearly.. The was in error. 1% of the Egyptian population is 1 million so 130,000 is 13% of 1% or or 0.13% of 100 million.