Anthony Blinken may be wrong about some things, but he’s damn right that peace requires a path to a two-state solution, with the Israel living beside a Palestinian state. It’s called Jordan.

But for Israelis, three months after the surprise invasion and slaughters of Simchat Torah, the idea of a Palestinian state on the West Bank or in Gaza, or both, is a non-starter.

Been there, done that. Giving back parts of Judea and Samaria led to the second intifada, a bloody flood of suicide bombings and shootings that killed over a thousand Israelis in a decade.

The Disengagement of 2005, the conception of Epstein buddy Ehud Barak and convicted corrupt pol Ehud Olmert, which evacuated Gush Katif to create a Jew-free Gaza, led directly to Black Sabbath of Simchat Torah. The cost: 1200 soldiers and civilians killed in a single day. 240 kidnapped, about half still in captivity. Nearly 200 soldiers paying for the loser politicians’ idiocy with their lives.

Now the Americans, fresh from the successes of their Afghan and Iraqi ventures, having invested billions in  training and arming the Palestinian Authority, want Israel to take a far greater risk than they ever did with an enemy minutes from our border and with proof what that means. Blinken, the little Jew boy in service to the global elites, his Alzheimer-afflicted boss, and the Kenyan Muslim puppetmaster behind him, wants us to bite that bullet and accept his vision of the “day after.”

Sorry, Tony. That dream died at dawn on October 7. Dream on. We’re still living the nightmare.

Many Israelis once believed that Peace would come, even that it was just around the corner. As B.B. King sang: “The thrill is gone.”

If the Americans do insist on a two-state solution, then there is only one recourse: read history.

The Palestine Mandate passed from the Ottomans after they lost the Great War, and divvied up with the French, comprised two sovereign entities: Israel and Transjordan, becoming Jordan in 1949, a year after the former. In those days, the only Palestinians were Jews, the others part of the great Arab nation.

Jordan has the lion’s share of the land of Mandatory Palestine. Jordan’s population is 70-80% Palestinian, some holding Jordanian citizenship. In Black September 1970, with high profile hijackings and other terror attacks, they tried to overthrow the King. They failed, and thousands of Fatah fighters and their families were expelled to Jordan.

Jordan is ruled by Hashemite King Hussein, a Sunni like his Saudi cousins. He is the one who stands in the way of a Palestinian state. Why does a (generally benevolent) King get to deny the democratic aspirations of the people residing in his Kingdom?  Why should Israel, a heterogeneous and rambunctious democracy, need to pay the price for the throwback Jordanian autocracy.

For years, Israel has considered Jordan, with good reason, the lesser of possible evils. Israel and Jordan even made peace in 1994, an arrangement that has made for a relatively quiet border in the thirty years since.  But since October 7, 2024, that peace has been living on borrowed time.

What if Israel were to announce, formally, that it supports a Palestinian State – in Jordan, within its current borders. Palestinians wishing to move there would be welcome to do so, ahalan wasahalan — as long as they are not terrorists.

King Hussein would need to step aside and hand over the reins to an elected Palestinian, or remain as a figurehead, like Prince Charles. Rania, the dictator’s wife who likes to lecture Israel about human rights, could become the Lady Diana of the Mideast. (It would suit her. When she tires of the little guy, she can upgrade to a rich Saudi. Just watch out for the paparazzi.)

Any Palestinian living in Gaza, Judea or Samaria, would be free to take a drive of a few minutes to an hour and find themselves in a recognized Palestinian state.

But what about the Jordanians? What about the rights of the Hashemite Kingdom to its sovereignty? As advocates for the Palestinians have been saying, the Palestinians deserve self-determination, and they constitute a clear majority in what is today Jordan. Tomorrow, when it’s Jordan, they will be a majority.

In the past, Israel preferred a peaceful Jordan to an unstable Palestine, but that calculus may be different now.  It’s in Israel’s interest to stop saying no to a Palestinian state and instead to embrace Palestine, as long as it’s in the historical location of the Palestine Mandate, occupying most of that territory.

Instead of calling for the liberation of Palestine from the River (Jordan) to the Sea, Israel’s genocidal enemies would be wise to adjust their call to “from the River to Saudi” to reflect the new reality.

Even if this plan for a workable Palestinian State is considered impractical or rhetorical, the advantages of Israel laying “Jordan is Palestine” on the table are many. By so doing, it ceases to be a nay-sayer concerning peace in the Middle East are many.

Blinken himself told us that the best way to kill a bad idea is to propose a better one. Here you go.

Imagine the headlines: “Israel says ‘Yes’ to Palestinian State”. “From the River to Saudi, Palestine will be free.”

Or: Blinken Makes Bibi Blink: Biden Jews Down Israel to Two-State Solution

Let’s face it: most people in the world couldn’t identify Jordan on a map. They wouldn’t miss the Hashemite if it were gone. Just rename it Palestine and let’s move on. Bye-Bye King.

Bibi would be instantly hailed as the wise King who handed over the baby Palestine to its rightful homeland on the right bank of the Jordan. Once Hussein and the Hashemites may have seemed the lesser of two evils compared to Hamas. But if the Amercian’s say it’s us or him who has to go, there’s no doubt which way Israel must choose.

The enemy of the good is the perfect. Recognizing Jordan as Palestine solves the Palestinian problem, at least diplomatically and in terms of public policy. It may be imperfect, but it’s a helluva lot better than any other solution, including Oslo and its imitators and modern poseurs.

What recognizing Jordan as historically, geographically and demographically Palestine brings, if not peace, is at least some quiet, and some historical justice. Ask the anti-Israel crowd why Jordan is not a Palestinian state, and listen to the crickets. Or should there be two Palestinian states?

Let the Gen Z ignoramuses learn some history and geography and demography, explaining on YouTube and Insta and TikTok why Jordan is NOT Palestine.

That challenge, along with “from the River to Saudi” should take the wind out of their sails and give them a life lesson they won’t soon forget. Then we would simply be repatriating them across the river they like to chant about so much.

As B.B. King sang at the end of “The Thrill is Gone.”

I’m free, free, free now
I’m free from your spell
And now that it’s all over
All I can do is wish you well

One can only add, as credit and epitaph, in tribute to B.B. and a tailwind for a Bibi with brass balls:

“Free, free Palestine. The Palestinian State is Jordan. Bye, bye, King. It was nice while it lasted and we wish you well.”