Beren wrote:Whatever suspending the peace treaty means, it'd be supposed to be temporary. That wording suggests it'd be resumed sooner or later anyway, so Israel may assume they'd eventually get away with the ethnic cleansing rather intact. They could even consider it a free pass actually.
That's what Israel may assume or hope for but I wouldn't be confident. While "suspend" suggests only a temporary measure, I assume Jordan would make a resumption of relations conditional on allowing the Palestinians to return to gaza or the west bank.
Btw according to one source, Egypt says an expulsion of Palestinians would cause a "rupture" in relations, even a "serious military escalation" so it doesn't look like Jordan is alone in this. Btw, Egypt has also rejected billions in aid, forgiveness of debt and EU money in exchange for taking Palestinians into sinai, so it looks like they're serious.
The present Israeli government may not be deterred by such consequences. To people like smotrich and ben gvir, getting the entire west bank for jews is worth far more than relations with Jordan or other arab states. They'd be happy to eject the Palestinians and wouldn't let them back in.
As an aside, as my username indicates, I've been in the pofo for 20 years now.
Dunno what the average is.