'Jordan is Palestine,' MK Eldad declares at embassy

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A handful of Israelis marked Jordanian Independence Day on Tuesday by trying to present the Jordanian Embassy in Ramat Gan with a petition to make the country the official homeland of the Palestinian people.

The initiator of the petition, MK Arye Eldad (National Union), said it asks “that King Abdullah declare Jordan as the national homeland of the Palestinian people. His father (King Hussein) said ‘Jordan is Palestine, Palestine is Jordan.’ Unfortunately Abdullah doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps on this.

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Eighty percent of the Jordanian people are Palestinians, and it is built on 65% of the Jewish homeland allocated in the Balfour Declaration and given to us at the San Remo Conference . Once the Palestinians lose their orphan status as a people without a state, their international demands will become much weaker,” Eldad said.

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The Palestinians who remain in the West Bank would be citizens of the Palestinian state and “can live wherever they like in the West Bank and vote for the Palestinian parliament in Amman,” he said. “This is the real two-state vision.”

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