Hadeel Seddik - Amman

The Jordanian popular consensus rejecting the American settlement plan for the Palestinian issue - which was embodied in the massive demonstrations and protest pauses in the Kingdom yesterday - is accompanied by official warnings of the repercussions of that plan, especially with regard to the annexation of the Jordan Valley, as Amman views with great concern towards this step, which is accompanied by pressure on the kingdom to change Its positions.

Jordanians warn that if the Jordan Valley is annexed, more than a million Israelis will replace the Palestinians there, which means strangling them geographically and pushing many of them to forced migration towards Jordan, but Jordanian official sources confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net, "the Kingdom's strong rejection of any unilateral Israeli move aimed at annexing the valley." Jordan, stressing that Amman "will deal with that plan and any propositions in accordance with its national interests and historical constants."

Those sources stress that the Jordanian state will not be part of implementing a plan that is not consistent with its interest, saying, "We will not draw borders and we will not naturalize anyone ... We have constants in word and deed, and we will not recognize the annexation of the Jordan Valley and the sources state that Amman is facing constant pressure to change its position." I also expected more of these pressures in the coming stage.

Al-Safadi warned against Israeli unilateral measures (Al-Jazeera)

Warning
Prior to the announcement of the American plan, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi announced that his country "warns of unilateral Israeli measures and considers them a violation of international law and provocative actions that push the region towards further escalation."

The Jordan Valley area constitutes about 30% of the area of ​​the West Bank, and extends from the south of Lake Tiberias to the north of the Dead Sea. The length of the land borders of the West Bank with Jordan is about 70 km, while the navy is 35 km. The area is inhabited by about 65,000 Palestinians and about ten thousand out of four hundred thousand settlers in the occupied West Bank. Israel views the Jordan Valley as an important strategic area because it contains many natural, water and economic resources, in addition to its great security importance for Tel Aviv.

The former Royal Court Chief Adnan Abu Odeh warns that the valley "constitutes the longest border distance between Jordan and Palestine, and by its annexation the borders of the Kingdom will be completely Israeli from the Yarmouk River in the north to Aqaba in the south, which makes the relationship between the Palestinians and Jordanians more complicated, not to mention that it will be managed by Israel." The danger of displacement of the Palestinian "stands out as a serious threat to Jordan."

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, he ruled out Jordan's abolition of the peace treaty, saying that the Jordanian diplomatic effort is essential at this stage, "As for the Arab situation (it is) in its most disintegrating, disintegrating, and Jordan stands alone in the face of dangerous American and Israeli policies."

In the same context, a retired military expert, Lt. Gen. Qasid Mahmoud, told Al-Jazeera Net that "Israel will increase its defense burden if it decides to annex the Jordan Valley, and will have to intensify its military presence on the borders of the Jordan Valley from the eastern side with the kingdom, and the west to its borders with the West Bank."

He added, warning that the annexation step "will also increase Amman's security concerns, and Jordan will have to raise the level of military alert on its borders, in anticipation of any operations that the Palestinian resistance might undertake in the valley as a target area that includes Israeli settlements."

Right and land owners refuse to compromise their rights and their future (Reuters)

A disastrous move
As for the writer and political analyst Hassan Al-Barari, the annexation is considered a catastrophic step for Jordan if it occurs, explaining that the idea of ​​annexing this area "right-wing started in 1967 with the aim of enhancing the security of the Israeli borders," noting that Jordanian concerns "fall into three basic political, economic and social points."

He explained that "the potential Palestinian entity, according to the plan, will not have any geographical contact with Jordan except through two crossings under Israeli control, which are the King Hussein crossing and the Prince Muhammad bridge."

He also pointed out that the economic concern raises Amman's concern, "as the Israeli move will cause the Palestinian economy to belong to the Israelis, and will hinder trade between the two countries. On the social level, the annexation will cut off social communication between families in Palestine and Jordan."

For his part, writer and researcher Mohammed Abu Rumman told Al-Jazeera Net that Jordan announced implicitly rejecting the American peace plan, when he affirmed his adherence to his national principles that contradict the plan, adding that there were "severe American pressures on Jordan to announce a more soft position, and there was Bets that the kingdom will ease its stance.

He believes that Jordan "does not seek confrontation with the American administration, and he is trying within the current data that is represented in an Arab strategic vacuum, an internal economic crisis, and an American right and an Israeli like him, to reduce the burden of the deal and wait to see how it will be translated on the ground if it was originally translated."