King Abdullah

Jordan's King Abdullah makes plea for two states

In an interview with Ha'aretz, King Abdullah II of Jordan made a case for achieving a two-state solution rather than continuing with the status quo.

The Red-Dead Project: Potential for Regional Peace

The recent progress on the Red-Dead Project, a water pipeline that would transfer water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, has the potential to foster regional peace between Israel and Jordan.

Itamar Eichner in Yedioth Ahronoth:

A breakthrough in the Red-Dead Project: Regional Development Minister Silvan Shalom has announced his success in forging an agreement between Israel, Jordan and the World Bank, which will provide a significant thrust for the project that has been stuck for years.

The Settlements: Obama's Demands and Netanyahu's Options

Amidst the whirlwind of activity surrounding President Obama's diplomatic efforts to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, one issue has stood out among others as particularly contentious. The renewed statements by President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the rest of the US administration on ending Israeli settlement activity has caused considerable discord on how to find common ground in this controversial issue.

What Happened in the Netanyahu-Abdullah meeting in Amman?

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took an unexpected trip to Amman to meet with Jordan's King Abdullah yesterday.

Israel Radio News reports:

What did Netanyahu and King Abdullah talk about yesterday?  Al-Arabiya reported last night King Abdullah relayed a message from Syrian President Bashar Assad saying that Damascus was ready to renew talks with Israel. Netanyahu, speaking about the Syrian track, told Channel One: "It depends on Syria. We don't know what is positions are, how serious it is and how genuine its intentions are."

Obama's Middle East Diplomacy Begins

In the course of a single day, the king of Jordan promoted a "57-state solution," in which every Arab and Muslim state from Indonesia to Mauritania would establish ties with Israel, the Israeli prime minister stood by the Egyptian president as they took turns declaring that Israel is ready and able to make peace with the Palestinians, and none other than the pope called for two "homelands," Israel and Palestine, coexisting one with the other.  

President Obama and King Abdullah Talk Mideast Peace

From the White House Blog:

Having discussed a wide range of issues concerning the Middle East during the meeting, from terrorism in the region, to Afghanistan, Iran, and the global economic crisis, the two leaders then gave remarks to the press. The President said King Abdullah "represents a modern approach to foreign policy-making in the Middle East," and King Abdullah in turn offered "warm thanks on behalf of many Arabs and Muslims who really had an outstanding response to the President's outreach to the Muslim Arab world." The bulk of the time, however, was spent on questions regarding Israel and Palestine: