Avigdor Liberman, the head of Israel’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, last month told a Hebrew-language podcast that Jordan should take security and administrative responsibility for the West Bank’s Palestinian areas because Amman, he said, has “no choice.” He later explained that Jordan should run Areas A and B, where the majority of Palestinians live, and described the framework as an “Israeli-Jordanian confederation.” His logic is that, without an alternative to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and
