Three-state solution
The three- state solution is a proposal for a solution to the Middle East conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. This approach proposes to transfer control of the West Bank to Jordan and the Gaza Strip to Egypt.
On the other hand, the term is also used to represent an approach that is independent from the West Bank Gaza Strip, next to Israel so that there are two Palestinian states.
History
The three- state solution essentially replicates the situation that existed between the ceasefire agreement of 1949 and the Six- Day War of 1967; 1949 Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip and Transjordan the West Bank, with East Jerusalem, a private Palestinian Arab territory did not exist. In 1950, Transjordan annexed officially the West Bank, the Arab residents Jordanian citizenship and granted the named officially to Jordan.
Feasibility
The two-state solution is the generally prevailing and advocated option, but also a three -state solution will always be considered where a viability of a Palestinian state is questioned (see section advocates ). In early 2009, the New York Times that Egypt and Jordan are increasingly concerned about possibly again have to take responsibility for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Proponent
The American diplomat John R. Bolton, the ambassador was in the United Nations, advocated in 2009 in a Washington Post article a three -state approach. The two-state solution he saw as a failure.
For the anti-Islam American journalist Daniel Pipes provides the "shared Jordanian- Egyptian rule " (Shared Jordanian - Egyptian rule ) the only remaining practical approach that which had worked pretty well already in the period 1948-67 ( [the ] only one practical approach, that Which worked tolerably well in the period 1948-67 ), after he had classified an Israeli control of the territories, a Palestinian state and a binational state as not working.
Also, the Israeli historian Benny Morris sees no possibility for a one-state or two-state solution; in his book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel / Palestine conflic he advertises instead for a Palestinian- Jordanian confederation.
In 2009, the deputy Arieh Eldad made in the Knesset, the proposal to grant the Palestinians of the West Bank, the Jordanian citizenship. The proposal called on the Jordanian side strong protest out, Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, the Jordanian convened the Israeli ambassador and called on the Israeli government to make a statement on. Israel's Foreign Ministry made it clear then that this was only the suggestion of a Knessetmitglieds, and did not represent the government position.
Alternative use of the term
The term three- state solution is also used to describe the Palestinian situation since the Hamas control of the Gaza Strip. In 2007, the Islamist party and terrorist organization took over the violence on the field and eluded the control of the Palestinian Authority; the Gaza Strip is governed de facto independent from the West Bank, but is dependent on a supply from abroad and from the Palestinian Authority.
The German political scientist Volker Perthes saw such a three- state solution as well as among Palestinians in non- negotiable.