The Allon Plan (Hebrew: תוכנית אלון) was a proposal to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank with a negotiated partition of its territories between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. The West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (الأردنّ al-Urdunn) is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern The plan was an attempt to implement the "Jordanian option" to the Palestinian refugee problem (also known as "Jordan is Palestine"). It is named after its chief proponent, Yigal Allon, who proposed it shortly after the June 1967 Six-Day war. Yigal Allon (יגאל אלון born 10 October 1918, died 29 February 1980) was an Israeli politician a commander of the Background Suez Crisis aftermath The Suez Crisis of 1956 represented a military defeat but a political victory for Egypt
The broad aim of the plan was to create a security border running up from the Jordan Valley to the eastern slopes of the West Bank hill ridge, retain sovereignty of that area, avoid Israeli settlement of heavily populated areas in the West Bank, and to offer those areas to Jordan in bilateral negotiations to achieve diplomatic rapprochement. Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured as a result of Jordanian attacks during the 1967 Six-Day War. The West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria This article is about the political term for the term as used in Biology, see symmetry (biology. In International relations a rapprochement', which comes from the French word rapprocher ("to bring together" is a re-establishment
This plan was not implemented strictly as subsequent governments of Israel created settlements outside of the Jordan rift. Shafir and Peled assert that this followed a change in the "settlement" paradigm, "[s]ince the possibility of peacefully closing the frontier detached the means of the military frontier from the goal of security, continued settlements became an end in itself, searching for a new justification. " [1]
Allon Plan for a Druze state in the Golan/Quneitra
Yigal Allon proposed as part of the Allon Plan that a Druze state (Jabal Druze) be established in Syria's Quneitra Governorate, including the Israeli-held Golan Heights. Jabal ad-Duruz ( جبل الدروز) also known as Jabal al-Arab (Arabic جبل العرب) is an elevated volcanic region in southern Syria Quneitra Governorate (مُحافظة القنيطرة is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces of Syria. Borders of Israel The Golan Heights ( الجولان al-Jawlān, הגולן ha-Golan) is a strategic Plateau and mountainous [1] Allon died in 1980, and the following year the Israeli government passed the Golan Heights Law, effectively annexing most of the Governorate. The Golan Heights Law is the Israeli law which applies Israel's government and laws to the Golan Heights.
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Notes
- ^ Shafir, Gershon, and Yoav Peled (2002). United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (S/RES/242 was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967 Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
- Bregman, Ahron (2002). Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947. London: Routledge.
External links
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/allonplan.html
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_allon_plan.php
http://www.mideastweb.org/alonplan.htm
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