What if Israel was able to successfully negotiate a peace, as well as perhaps a settlement regarding the PLO, with Jordan prior to the Six-Day War? How would the war go then? How would the map have been changed?
What if Israel was able to successfully negotiate a peace, as well as perhaps a settlement regarding the PLO, with Jordan prior to the Six-Day War? How would the war go then? How would the map have been changed?
You'd need a really, really big POD. I'm reminded of AHP saying that if there was ever a time when Istanbul could have been reconquered it would have been. In the case of King Hussein, if there was ever a time when he could have signed such a peace treaty, he would have signed it. He didn't because frankly he wasn't suicidal. Remember that 60-80% of Jordan's population is Palestinian.
But wasn't Israel willing to give away parts of the West Bank? I mean, they were pretty committed to peace with Jordan before the war.
I didn't specify what sort of deal regarding the PLO, because I'm unsure as to what is plausible. My understanding of the war is that it wasn't about the Palestinians so much as that was an excuse used by the Arab nations for their own differing agendas.
And he had a good reason to be fearful too. His father was assassinated by and Islamist fanatic.In the case of King Hussein, if there was ever a time when he could have signed such a peace treaty, he would have signed it. He didn't because frankly he wasn't suicidal.
There's no real language, cultural, religious or tribal division between Palestinian and Jordanian farming and urban populace. It was a single entity pre-1947. There's division between Jordanian farmers and nomadic bedouins (power base of the Hashemite dynasty).Aren't they really Jordanian?