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JERUSALEM, May 3 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Jordan can be
the new homeland of Palestinians in return for allowing it to have
lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq, revealed an Israeli plan
Saturday, May 3.
Israeli
Tourism Minister Benny Elon left last night for the United States, where
he will present the U.S. officials with the plan based on naturalizing
the Palestinians in Jordan and that a Palestinian state in the spirit of
President George Bush's vision will only feed terrorism and that Jordan
is Palestine, Israeli daily Haaretz said.
However,
Elon, known for his close relations with fundamentalists and evangelical
Christians, will try to convince Washington that the Palestinian
Authority should be dismantled and that Israeli sovereignty should be
applied from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea, the Israeli
paper said.
Five-Stage
Plan
Admitting
he is opposed to President Bush's "vision," calling for
Palestinian and Israeli states to exist side by side, Eilon claims his
solution is also a two-state formula, saying that Jordan fulfils all the
criteria of a Palestinian state.
Amman
had earlier repeatedly rejected similar calls by the Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon’s government members.
Elon’s
plan consists of six stages; the first of which is that the Palestinian
authority should be dismantled immediately as it represents "an
entity without a future, and whose existence prevents the end of the
dispute."
The
second state calls on Israel to use its military and political power to
destroy “all the Palestinian terror infrastructure,” tear down
refugee camps and deport what it call ‘terrorist groups’.
As
for the third stage, Israel, the U.S. and the international community
“will recognize Jordan as the only legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people, and that Jordan will grant citizenship to all Arabs
of the West Bank, Gaza and other Palestinians who want it”.
The
international community will in return concentrate efforts on long-term
development of Jordan, to enable it to “absorb a limited number of
refugees. The assistance includes giving Jordanian companies part of the
lucrative subcontracts in the rebuilding of neighboring Iraq.
“After
that, Israel and Jordan-Palestine will declare the end of the dispute
and establish neighborly and cooperative relations, and act together
toward normalization between Israel and the Arab states,” read the
last stage of Elon’s plan.
