Allon plan

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The Allon Plan without further concessions: the blue areas should be annexed to Israel, the green areas returned to Jordan or serve as the basis for a Palestinian state.

The Allon Plan is a concept presented in November 1967 by the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel , Jigal Allon , for the settlement of the West Bank (West Bank).

The plan was further expanded and the final version was available in 1970, it essentially contained two major points:

  • The Jordan Valley , East Jerusalem and the surrounding area, the Judean Desert from the Dead Sea to Hebron and the area of Gush Etzion should be Israeli colonized and become part of Israeli national territory, for military and religious-national reasons. Jerusalem was to be united with the Arab east and, because of its unique religious sites for Judaism, it was to form the so-called "eternal and undivided capital of Israel".
  • The densely Arabian mountain ridges in the north and south of the West Bank should remain Arab. Initially, the formation of a small Arab-Palestinian state was favored, but the Israeli government quickly came to the conclusion that it would offer these areas, including a corridor near Jericho, Jordan as a base for peace negotiations. King Hussein rejected the Israeli proposal at the end of September 1968 on the grounds that he could not explain the solution to his people if it was not acceptable to the "Arab consciousness".

Another sub-item of the plan was the establishment of a Druze buffer state in the Syrian governorate al-Quneitra on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Today this area is annexed to Israel.

The Israeli author Avi Shlaim refers to later interviews with King Hussein I, in which the Israeli offer was said to have been expanded to 98% of the West Bank, but the related conditions were rejected by Hussein.

“I was offered the return of something like 90 plus percent of the territories, 98 percent even, excluding Jerusalem, but I couldn't accept. As far as I am concerned, it was either every single inch that I was responsible for or nothing. "

- King Hussein I : Interview about the Allon Plan

“I was offered the return of over 90 percent of the territories, even 98 percent without Jerusalem, but I couldn't accept it. As far as I'm concerned, I was either responsible for every inch or not a single one. "

- King Hussein I : Interview about the Allon Plan

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the Haaretz (Engl.)
  2. ^ Avi Shlaim: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World . WW Norton, 2001, ISBN 0-393-32112-6 , pp. 264 .
  3. ^ Terence Smith: Hussein Said to Urge an Israeli Pullback To Western Edge of the Jordan Valley . In: The New York Times . February 15, 1974, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Iron Wall p. 264
  5. ↑ Iron Wall p. 264

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