Retired Palestinian General Wasef Eriqat has reiterated PA policy that they will not accept a permanent Israeli occupation of the Jordan Valley, the land which would be the border between Palestine and Jordan, as a condition for peace.
Eriqat insisted there was no military need for Israel to hold the border because Israel’s putative security threats center around missiles launched from afar, not militants sneaking in from Jordan, an Israeli ally.
Israeli analysts have concurred with that assessment repeatedly, seeing the push to keep the Jordan Valley as part out-dated policy and part effort to sabotage the talks.
Israeli Lobby the Zionist Organization of America disagrees, insisting the Jordan Valley is “critically important” as a “natural tank trap” to keep tanks from rolling in from abroad through Palestine to destroy Israel. Exactly whose tanks these would even theoretically be goes unstated, but seems if nothing else to underscore the 1967 mentality prevalent in Israel’s strategic thinking.
The Israelis don't really want the Jordan Valley for security, not from Jordan. They want it for water, and for farmland. They want it for settlement. The rest is excuses, lies, normal for Netanyahu. There is no reason to give credence or the honor of seriousness to those transparent lies. We know his first value is settlements.
But tanks and bulldozers rolling from anywhere to destroy Palestine are a-okay.
'Israel' is just one monumental fraud. Allowed to fester and putrefy for some 60Y with the help of one US veto. Their Torah says the only reason of being is for “Non-Jews Exist to Serve Jews” so the Palestinians are expected to pay for the pleasure of being subjugated by the apartheid, racist, murderous illegally occupation. They are expected to keep still as Israel robs them blind, steal their land, farms and homes, poison their wells and deny them access to water.
Israel bombs Gaza Airport and anything destined for Palestine must come through Israel, attracting the highest haulage and tax tariff ever. A lucrative little money earner for the Chosenites. Coupled with German reparation $$$, US taxpayers $$$, stealing of US technology and marketing it as 'Made in Israel" then on selling US technology to US enemies, denying whatever advantage said technology could have benefited the US. If Mugabe could introduce such a scam Zimbabwe too would surely be lauded the most prosperous Nation in Africa.