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The Allon Plan is an historic proposal to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank with a negotiated partition of territories between the Jewish State and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is named after its chief proponent, Yigal Allon.

The broad aim of the plan was to create a security boarder running up from the Jordan Valley to the eastern slopes of the West Bank hill ridge, retain sovereignty of that area, avoid colonization of heavily populated areas within the West Bank, and finally offering Jordan peace in exchange for these non-colonized areas.

This plan was not implemented strictly as subsequent governments of Israel created settlements outside of the Jordan rift, increased the settler population for economic reasons, favored such settlements over diplomatic solutions to security needs. As noted by Shafir and Peled, "ince the possibility of peacefully closing the frontier detached the means of the military frontier from the goal of security, continued settlements became an end in itself, searching for a new justification." (161-165)

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Links:

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_allon_plan.php

References:

Shafir, Gershon, and Yoav Peled. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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