Are Israel and Jordan ready to turn over a new leaf?
Are Israel and Jordan ready to turn over a new leaf?
Israel’s new government aims to mend relations with Jordan’s leadership through gestures like economic and water deals, but the Palestinian issue and Iran remain major obstacles.
(July 14, 2021 / JNS) Jordan’s King Abdullah II has often described his country as being wedged between a “rock and a hard place,” referring to war-torn Iraq and the Israeli-controlled areas west of the Jordan River. And that may certainly have been true for many years, but now that the United States is withdrawing its troops from Iraq and Israel has a new government, Jordan finds itself facing changed realities along its borders.
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The Austrian Federal Chancellery raised the Israeli flag as a sign of solidarity, in Vienna on May 14, 2021. (HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP)
Amid a series of protests and condemnations in the Arab world as Israel and Hamas continue to fight, and anti-Israel rallies in some western cities too, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Friday thanked their leadership counterparts in the US and Europe for their support.
“I would like to say a word of appreciation to our friend President [Joe] Biden and to other friends,” said Netanyahu in a Friday afternoon video message, citing “the president of France, the British prime minister, the chancellor of Austria, the chancellor of Germany and others.