Israeli leaders then ruled out the possibility of incorporating the West Bank Palestinian population into a greater Israel because it would have dramatically changed the states Jewish demographic orientation. Again, the prime minister didn’t say. The Jordan Valley is in the part, known as Area C, that is fully controlled by Israel, with the exception of the Palestinian city of Jericho.No. Another complication yet to be explained is that the blue shaded area that the prime minister vowed to immediately annex if he wins next Tuesday’s election includes roughly 62,000 acres of private Palestinian land, according to data from the Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration. What is the Jordan Valley? Moreover, it shaped, to a great extent, Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank and Gaza during the years from 1967 to 1977." It’s difficult to escape the impression that the map used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to introduce his Jordan Valley annexation plan was drawn up in something of a hurry. The premier defended the timing of his plan on Tuesday, asserting that the “diplomatic conditions” had only now “ripened” for such a move.A senior government official similarly deflected criticism that the announcement, map and all, had been put together at the last minute. It called for incorporating in Israel the following areas: a strip of land ten to fifteen kilometers wide along the Jordan River; most of the Judean desert along the Dead Sea; and a substantial area around Greater Jerusalem, including the Latrun salient.
Some of it is governed by Palestinian institutions (with minimal Israeli military presence) and the rest is run entirely by Israel. (Hagit Ofran/Peace Now)Palestinian Bedouin homes are seen in the in the Jordan Valley of the West Bank, on September 11, 2019. That’s kind of a big deal. Nonetheless, the Allon Plan served as a basis for the Labor Party election platforms in 1974, 1977, 1981, 1984, and 1987. The cabinet discussed Allon's plan but neither adopted nor rejected it. Palestinians there do not have citizenship and do not have the right to vote for Israeli officials, though they do vote in Palestinian local elections. The Jordan Valley is an area in the West Bank, which is a territory Israel captured during the Six-Day War in 1967 and since has controlled. “The plan to apply sovereignty is not something that we thought about just recently. This includes some 5,000 acres of private Palestinian land seized by Israel for security-related reasons. Peace Now estimated that a fifth of the area specified by Netanyahu — some 250,000 dunams — is private Palestinian land.
Designed to include as few Arabs as possible in the area claimed for Israel, the plan envisaged building permanent settlements and army bases in these areas. When the Allon Plan was officially offered to the king [of Jordan] in cordial and secret talks in September 1968, Hussein rejected it because he felt it 'infringed on Jordanian sovereignty.' The victory reopened the old question about the territorial aims of Zionism...The question was what to do with these territories, and to this question there was no simple answer... On 26 July he [Allon] submitted to the cabinet a plan that was to bear his name [The Allon Plan]. "September 2019 annexation proposal by Israeli prime minister Two notable Israeli plans for the annexation of the Jordan ValleyAvi Shlaim, 2001, The Iron Wall: "Victory in the Six-Day War marked the beginning of a new era in Israel's history – an era of uncertainty. It was planned for months,” he said.But, he added, “there were legal issues with doing anything before the elections. The High Court of Justice issued a decision in 1979 barring such exploitation of security-related land seizures, but those settlements have remained and are now slated for annexation as part of Netanyahu’s plan.
According to a map presented by Netanyahu in 2019, the areas to be annexed would comprise 95 percent of the Jordan Valley … Etkes said the “hastily made map” was further proof that the announcement was an electoral ploy and claimed that if Netanyahu had been serious about such a policy move, he could have carried it out any time over the last several years, rather than waiting until a week before the election to promise it.