THE JORDAN OPTION: THOUGHTS FROM AN EXPERT

I was sure I wasn't the first person to come up with the idea of a Jordanian mandate over a future Palestinian state. It's not an ideal solution, but it is more and more looking to be the least bad option. Here's a pre-Operation Defensive Shield column from professor Walter Reich, the
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics, and Human Behavior at The George Washington University.

If you think that's radical, you should read this piece advocating giving most of post-Sadaam Iraq to the Hashemites as compensation for taking on the thankless task of bringing order to the Palestinians. Now go back and read Reich's piece again - its not so unrealistic after all.