Israel is prepared to recognize a “temporary Kingdom of Jordan administration” over Arab-held Palestine in return for a territorial” adjustment to Israel of Transjordan territory, Reuters, quoting a source close to the Israeli-Transjordan armistice commission, reported today from Damascus.
This plan, the British news agency said, was proposed by the Israeli delegation at the Lausanne peace talks to the U.N. Conciliation Commission with the request that it toe conveyed to the Arabs.
Specifically, the proposal calls for Transjordan to transfer to Israel a triangular area extending from Hamme, south of Lake Tiberias, to the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan Rivers and thence southward to the Jewish settlement of Tirat Zvi. The area is the strategic hinterland of the Rutenberg electric works and possession of it would permit the Jews to build military defenses against its seizure and damage or destruction–which occurred at the beginning of the Palestine invasion. The Hamme area is now occupied by Syrian troops.
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