The future of the Jordan Valley is a major part of the debate over what a future Palestinian state would look like. The valley would be the border between independent Palestine and Jordan.
The most recent US proposal, according to the Palestinians, is that American troops would guard the border under a peace deal between Israel and, Palestine.
Israel is opposed to the plan, and insists that even though its a border between two other countries, they want to maintain permanent and total military control over the Jordan Valley.
The Palestinians are apparently open to the idea of a US occupation of the area as a compromise, but will not accept a deal where Israel retains military control over their only border with another nation.
Israeli General Avi Mizrahi says that every time Israel has accepted “international forces” in the region “their output in the field was not what we wanted,” and that this meant Israel would only accept their own military controlling the border, even if its not their border.
It's about the RIVER (water), stupid!
the jordan river is not needed for its water, it has almost none(its a very very small river) and Israel controls the damns at the sea of Galilee, so they control its flow,(which is mostly about keeping the dead sea from completely disappearing.
nope this is a simple matter of control. cant build a prison with one side open.
all the important water resources are in the north, the golan. and southern Lebanon
the west bank does have large underground aquifers which happen to be directly under the largest
settlement.
btw in the map provide with the ariticle most of the southern half of the dead sea that is shown as water is in fact dry land