AMMAN — As a six-way meeting of the foreign
ministers of the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
Morocco and Egypt convened in the Naqab Desert, His Majesty
King Abdullah was
holding talks in Ramallah with Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas, to
reiterate the centrality of the Palestinian issue and to renew Jordan’s support
to the Palestinians and to their right to an independent state with East
Jerusalem as its capital.
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Political
analyst Hussein Al-Rawashdeh said the King’s talks in Ramallah expressed two
key messages; Jordan’s rejection of the Israeli invitation to attend the
six-party ministerial meeting in Naqab, and Jordan’s reiteration of its core
positions on Palestine: rejection of Israeli settlements, condemnation of the
storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and support for a two-state solution.
“Hence, Jordan
views the six-party meeting as a reward to Israel and its policies against the
Palestinians, and the visit carries a deep multi-dimensional political message
from Jordan to all the parties,” said Rawashdeh.
Former Deputy
Prime Minister Mamdouh Al-Abbadi said the Ramallah meeting indicates that
“Jordan’s foreign policy compass points towards the Palestinian cause,” adding
that the current circumstance requires continued meetings between the two sides
to achieve the common goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state.
Senator Jamil
Al-Nimri said His Majesty’s meeting with Abbas in
Ramallah “came at the right
time and entailed a message contrary to the Naqab meeting,” which did not
include the Palestinians.
“It is clear
that the trend is to reverse the positioning of the parties in regional affairs
and shuffle the cards by making Iran the main enemy, and Jordan does not accept
that because it considers this as part of the ‘Deal of the Century’,” he added.
Political analyst Amer
Al-Sabaileh saw the Ramallah summit as consolidating the fact that the
situation in the West Bank is a top priority for Jordan. He said the King’s
visit aimed to calm the situation in the
West Bank and express Jordanian fears
of a “social explosion” and clashes during Ramadan, “something which is
directly connected with Jordan’s security.”
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