Posted on 05/11/2009 9:02:41 AM PDT by VRWCTexan
President Obama’s critical meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu next week has become the acid test for the Administration’s commitment to peace in the Middle East, King Abdullah of Jordan said...
“All eyes will be looking to Washington,” ...If there are no clear signals and no clear directives to all of us, there will be a feeling that this is just another American Government that is going to let us all down.”
If Israel procrastinated on a two-state solution, or if there was no clear American vision on what should happen this year, the “tremendous credibility” that Mr Obama had built up in the Arab world would evaporate overnight.
And if peace negotiations were delayed, there would be another conflict between Arabs or Muslims and Israel in the next 12-18 months, with implications far beyond the Middle East.
“If the call is in May that this is not the right time or we are not interested, then the world is going to be sucked into another conflict in the Middle East,” the King said.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
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Or it doesn't. I think Netanyahu's meeting in Egypt might be equally interesting.
Jordon’s king is leading the arab’s efforts to respond to obama’s determination to seek Israel’s surrender to the so called Arab peace plan
Obama is expected to lay this out to the muslim world in a visit to Cairo on June 4th
Yep. There is you two-state solution. Jordan and Israel.
Thanks
Meanwhile since I do all the shopping - you can rest assured that I’m not going to be buying any “green bananas” ... keep looking up!!
From the article - the king was quoted as stating:
Jerusalem was not an international problem but an “international solution”, he insisted. A symbol of conflict for centuries, it was now desperately needed to become a symbol of hope. And hinting at the Arab demand for international control of the old city, he said that Islam, Christianity and Judaism should make it a “pillar for the future of this century”. He sensed a lot more understanding in these times of cultural and religious suspicions that “Jerusalem could be the binder that we need”.
Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Ping
My take
The arabs are scared of Bibi, they know they can’t push him around
A “News” google on the words “Israel peace” gave me over 20,000 hits - one could infer the world’s interest is certainly on an “upward trend”
“The arabs are scared of Bibi, they know they can’t push him around”
BINGO...
They KNOW he’s a no-bullsh**t guy. You hit him, he hits you back, HARD. Usually hard enough you don’t get up.
You’ll notice how quiet the Pali’s and Hamas have been since he’s been elected?
Bibi’s going to tell Obama how the world REALLY works, outside of Academia, and he’s not going to like it. I have a feeling this is going to end badly. For OBAMA, not for Israel.
Amen brother, the world will learn the price for double-crossing Israel. And why we would even be involved in another country’s peace process is a mysetery to me. I say let Israel defend herself and let her do what she wants.
"...If there are no clear signals and no clear directives to all of us, there will be a feeling that this is just another American Government that is going to let us all down." If Israel procrastinated on a two-state solution, or if there was no clear American vision on what should happen this year, the "tremendous credibility" that Mr Obama had built up in the Arab world would evaporate overnight. And if peace negotiations were delayed, there would be another conflict between Arabs or Muslims and Israel in the next 12-18 months, with implications far beyond the Middle East. "If the call is in May that this is not the right time or we are not interested, then the world is going to be sucked into another conflict in the Middle East," the King said.Sounds like a threat. From Jordan. The landlocked 70 per cent "Palestinian" royalist despotism which hasn't fought a war since it contributed some tanks to the 1973 invasion of Israel -- on the Syrian front, a mere three years after Syria invaded Jordan.
I read somewhere a lefty Israeli journalist observation that paradoxically (to a western liberal anyway) Lieberman and Bibi are more understandable and predictable and therefore are more preferable negotiation partners to power players in Arab world than Livni and Olmert were, with all their *peace* talk projecting weakness and then 2 nervous wars to demonstrate toughness. Arab powers respect power and understand negotiations from the position of power. Lieberman provides that for sure. He does not need to *demonstrate* toughness.
All the Israelis I know are waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Jordan isn’t landlocked. They have the gulf city of Aqaba, acrosxs the Jordan River from Eilat.
Oh yeah... well, that’s an oversight. And I was being so eloquent. :’)
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