Talk politics.

Except that the West Bank belonged to Jordan, the state that was the *least* hostile to Israel and the one with the most reason aside from Israel to want to suppress Palestinian nationalism (namely that Palestinians vastly outnumbered Jordanians in Jordan). Making a state that Israel had had its most effective dealings with going all the way back to Meir and the King in 1948 understandably hostile is nonsensical on the face of it, why wreck the one case where Israel *did* have its friendliest state? And where the Arabs also had their best and most formidable armies, too?