ABSTRACT
The Jordanian option the hope for settlement between Israel and Jordan. Israeli-Jordanian peace negotiations between 1967 and 1969 had an important effect in paving way for the Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations. In the face of continuing Jordanian military attacks on Jerusalem, the Israeli army had no choice but to respond, and went on to conquer East Jerusalem and the West Bank. In December 1966, Yigal Alon, Minister of Labor and one of Israel's foremost strategists, has given a lecture in which he argued that Israel had to face four basic strategic challenges: first, a massive military threat from Egypt; second, a geo-strategic threat from whoever controlled the West Bank; third, a trigger effect from Syria that may easily lead to war; and fourth, a Palestinian threat to the international legitimacy of Israel's existence. To face these four challenges in period before the Six Day War of June 1967, Israel had endeavored to build an effective military deterrence against Egypt and Syria.
