Lately I have been reading more articles about the Arab clans and their leaders, who apparently don’t support the PLO and their plans for a state.

I am now tending towards working something out with the sheiks and handing the rest over to Jordan, perhaps as a separate country sharing the same monarch.

Why force the Arabs in the West Bank to live under PLO or Hamas rule? The people of East-Jerusalem are signing up for Israeli passports lately, they obviously don’t want PLO rule either.

So I am thinking fourth partition of Palestine:

1. Palestine -> Cisjordan and Transjordan

2. Cisjordan -> Israel and Gaza/Westbank

3. Gaza/Westbank -> Gaza and Westbank

4. Westbank ->

a) Jewish settlements at the Israeli border will be annexed to Israel.

Arab settlements at the Jordanian border will have a choice between being annexed to Jordan or become independent.

c) Settlements far from the respective border will have a choice of being annexed to Israel, to Jordan, or become part of the independent state.

All this will be subject to the opinions of the clan leaders.

I have enough of the PLO, Hamas, the Arab nationalists and the like.

Let’s talk to the clans!

The West Bank as an entity will simply vanish, like in 1948, except this time Jordan won’t get all of it and the people living there will have a say.

Gaza can do whatever it likes. For all I care the Egyptians can invade it and become as rich as the Zionists by “oppressing” and “enslaving” the Gazans.

Hamas and the PLO and all the other Nazis will just have to leave the Palestinians alone. And by Palestinians I mean ALL Palestinians, Jewish and Arab.

Israel should talk to the clans and then simply withdraw recognition from the PLO. The PLO didn’t keep their end of the peace treaty anyway, so let’s find someone who might (or at least has not already not done so).

They just have to be better than the PLO. That should't be too difficult.

The clans don’t have enough power.

But those who did could not be trusted. Israel needs to help those who want peace. Too long the mistake was made of talking to those who could enforce peace but wouldn't.

Economic aid should be withdrawn from the PLO and given to the clans. I don’t expect an end of corruption, but I do expect that the clan leaders will abuse their power and make sure supplies reach those loyal to their clans.

That way the clans will become more powerful within the next few years. And they won’t be in Israel’s pay, since the money will come from abroad. Let’s see if Arab funding of the PLO can compete with American and European funding of clan leaders.

Once the clans have some power, they can make sure that PLO and other terrorists won’t operate from villages loyal to the clans. Israel can then happily fight it out with the terrorists and any civilian casualties will shift the balance of power even more away from the PLO to the clans.

Apart from that Israel should simply ask what the clans want and then do it. Let the clans built their little empire and let Israel do what the clans think is helpful.

However corrupt the clan leaders might become because of that, it still will be better than what the PLO always was.
The clans can also ask (not condemn) Israel to react less violently. The clans can also speak for villages and give Israel a list of villages and towns not to attack, even in retaliation. Once the clans have power over Israeli retaliation, more people will try to be on their good side.

There won’t be any open warfare for power between the clans and the PLO, but the clans will have the money, some power over Israel’s responses, and control over settlements outside the war zone.

Should the PLO take action against the clans, the PLO will have to fight against tribal traditions among the Arab population. And they are strong.

Al-Qaeda ran into the same problem in Iraq lately.

Arab nationalism is a nice thing for the urban poor, but is goes against the powers of the clans. And the sheiks don’t like losing power.

So let’s help them.