Tag: Jordan
GOP senators introduce new sanctions on Syria, boost security cooperation with Israel and Jordan
On the first day of the 116th Congress on Thursday, Republican senators introduced legislation to impose fresh sanctions on Syria as well as boosting security cooperation with Israel and Jordan amid the announced gradual withdrawal of...
Analysis: Meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan
On Dec. 18, Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas met with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman. According to sources in Ramallah, the main reason for the meeting was a request from Abbas to the...
Israeli and Jordanian experts downplay significance of peace-treaty changes
Jordan’s King Abdullah just announced that he informed Israel “of an end to the application of the peace-treaty annexes regarding al-Baqura and al-Ghumar.” The king was referring to a small area in Naharayim in...
Jordan announces decision to terminate peace-treaty land lease to Israel in 2019
Jordan will not renew parts of a 1994 peace treaty that leases two areas on the Jordan River to Israel, saying Jordan aims to practice “full sovereignty on our land.” Israel’s neighboring nation could...
Is a PLO confederation with Jordan a viable solution to the Mideast conflict?
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas recently told a group of Israeli activists that the Trump administration proposed a confederation between the Palestinians and Jordan. For years, the idea of Jordan serving as a state...
Welcome to the United Arab Kingdom?
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas recently told a group of Israeli activists that the Trump administration proposed a confederation between the Palestinians and Jordan. For years, the idea of Jordan serving as a state...
Jordan rejects confederation with Palestinians, says only solution to conflict is Palestinian state
King Abdullah II of Jordan has apparently rejected the U.S.-backed idea of creating a confederacy including areas of the West Bank containing large populations of Palestinians on Sunday, with government spokespersons insisting that Jordan...
Ex-Jordanian prime minister: ‘If we ever become stronger, we will take Haifa by force’
Former Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelsalam Al-Majali defended the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, saying: “My mentality is a mentality of peace,” and talking about the fundamental issues that Jordan had achieved through the treaty. Jordan, he...
Jordanian MP Huda Etoom: ‘My late mother’s single desire was to blow herself up...
Jordanian MP Huda Etoom said that her late octogenarian mother had a single unfulfilled desire: “to don an explosives belt and blow herself up among the Zionist Jews.”
MP Etoom, who represents Jerash, made the...
Jordanian Columnist: ‘Recent earthquakes in region may be due to testing of Israeli weapons...
Following a series of low-magnitude earthquakes felt in Israel and neighboring countries in early July, Kamal Zakarneh, a columnist for the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour, wrote that the quakes may have been caused by the underground...