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Jul. 13, 2021 2:10 AM
Ever since Barak Ravid reported last week on the Walla news site about Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s secret meeting with King Abdullah at his Amman palace, some voices on the right have been gripped with a familiar paranoia. They’re worrying that a warming of the cold ties that hit bottom under Benjamin Netanyahu will now cost Israel “dearly” in all sorts of ways.
Some examples: the imposition of, God help us, a peace process with the Palestinians (as if the Jordanians will succeed where Biden doesn’t even dare try); eliminating the alliance with the Gulf States versus the Iranians (both alliances are possible and necessary); ceding the West Bank enclaves (Netanyahu already gave up what anyway is not ours). And they’ve suddenly become tremendously possessive about every cubic meter of water (the waters of the Land of Israel are now apparently just as holy as the land). On “Meet the Press,” Nadav Haetzni called Jordan a country “that functions like an enemy” and in Israel Hayom, Caroline Glick termed the prime minister’s meeting with the king “a humiliation.”