"Former officials and strategists warn that Israel's new land registry laws and military pressure in the occupied West Bank are the final prelude to the alternative homeland' scenario. For decades, the alternative homeland the notion that Jordan should become the Palestinian state was dismissed in Amman's diplomatic circles as a distant nightmare or a conspiracy theory. Today, under the shadow of a far-right Israeli government and a devastating genocidal war in Gaza, that nightmare has become an operational reality."
"The alarm in the Hashemite Kingdom reached a fever pitch on Sunday, following the Israeli cabinet's approval of measures to register vast swaths of the occupied West Bank as state land under the Israeli Ministry of Justice. The move, described by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich as a settlement revolution, effectively bypasses the military administration that has governed the occupied territory since 1967, treating it instead as sovereign Israeli soil."
"For Jordan, this bureaucratic annexation is the final signal that the status quo is dead. With the Israeli military's Iron Wall operation crushing refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem, Jordan's political and military establishment is no longer asking if a forced transfer is coming, but how to stop it. The transfer is no longer a threat; it is moving to execution, Mamdouh al-Abbadi, Jordan's former deputy prime minister, told Al Jazeera."
"We are seeing the practical application The alternative homeland is something that is coming; after this West Bank, the enemy will move to the East Bank, to Jordan. The fear in Amman is not just about military invasion, but about a soft transfer, making life in the West Bank unliveable to force a gradual exodus towards Jordan. Sunday's decision to transfer land registration authority to the Israeli Justice Ministry is viewed in Jordan as a critical step in this process."
Israel approved measures to register large areas of the occupied West Bank as state land under the Israeli Ministry of Justice, bypassing the military administration that has governed the territories since 1967. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called the move a settlement revolution, framing the land as sovereign Israeli soil. Jordanian officials view the bureaucratic annexation as the collapse of the status quo and a precursor to forced or soft transfer of Palestinians toward Jordan. Ongoing Israeli military operations, including the Iron Wall campaign in Jenin and Tulkarem, have heightened fears of a practical application of the 'alternative homeland' scenario, with Jordan scrambling to prevent population displacement.
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