Jordanian Presence = Regime’s Abdication of Jewish Sovereignty, Security Obligations

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Bibi: “Since it endangers the Hashemite Kingdom, we expect them to lend a hand.”

Abbas Seeks to Bolster [Jordanian Based] West Bank Forces

No Jordan Option, by Marc Lynch (Middle East Report June 21, 2004)

Weekly Commentary: Keep Jordan Out of West Bank Security, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

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Involving Jordan in West Bank security could undermine effective ongoing Israeli operations in the area, destabilize the Hashemite Kingdom and hurt relations between the Jewish State and Jordan. In the longer run this could mean setting the scene for a confrontation with a different Jordanian regime which has advance position next to Kfar Sava and Netanya.

Yes, it certainly is tempting to try and pass off the Palestinian hot potato to the Jordanians.

But it would be a terrible mistake.

Today the West Bank is within Israel’s security envelope and Israeli forces can literally enter pretty much any place at any time. Introduce a Jordanian presence and Israeli security forces would have to bend over backwards to avoid them.

Even if the Jordanians deployed didn’t intend it to be the case, armed Palestinian groups could be expected to exploit the Jordanian presence as human shields.

It is a no win situation.

Should the Jordanians try to do a serious job they would be denounced for collaborating with Israel and the King’s enemies would move to overthrow him.

No one can predict who will be ruling in Jordan in 2010, let alone a
generation from now. Why set the scene for a confrontation which can be avoided in the first place?

But what of the challenge of West Bank security?

That’s the irony: all the talk about involving Jordan gives the impression that the current approach is a dismal failure when the opposite is the case.

While no security operations can have zero failures, Israeli security forces enjoy a level of success in the West Bank today well beyond anyone’s expectations.

Whatever problems there are can be attributed to a lack of will on the part of Israeli political leaders rather than a lack of ability of Israeli security forces to get the job done.

Commentary;

Of all the media regarding a Judanian presence on Jewish land in Yehuda and the Shomron (Judea and Samaria — referred to by the unschooled as “West Bank), the best bolster of Dr. Lerner’s points seems to come from Isi Leibler, who writes in his piece, Stop Appeasing Abu Mazen;

Israel’s deterrent effect must be restored. It is immoral, even obscene, for our government to consciously delay tough responses against the missile assaults. Must we await a strike on a kindergarten, hospital or key infrastructure before acting? Only a miracle has averted a calamity to date.

A nation does NOT give credibility to it’s deterrent effect of it’s military and does not bolster it’s self-pride, or national self-image by entrusting it’s security to any 3rd party; not Jordan, not Egypt, not the US, not the UN, not the EU. Gaining or regaining military credibility and deterrence is achieved in one way and one way only — Israeli self-reliance!

That Bibi Netanyahu suggests giving another nation a responsibility for Israel’s self-defense is doomed to the same abysmal failure as Olmert’s and Livni’s consigning of the Philadelphi Road to Egyptian control. This is another in a growing list of reasons why we need Real Jewish Leadership and why Likud voters MUST vote Moshe Feiglin to lead Likud to the next elections. MB

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