Netanyahu meeting with Obama decides Mid-East’s future, says Jordan's King Abdullah

[babylonsister]

No pressure here... :scared:

Netanyahu meeting with Obama decides Mid-East’s future, says Abdullah

Michael Binyon and Richard Beeston



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 yesterday.

The monarch does not conceal his feelings about the Israeli leader. He described their last encounter – 10 years ago when he had just come to the throne – as the “least pleasant” of his reign. But he, and President Mubarak of Egypt, are expected to meet the Israeli leader before his trip to Washington, where the future course of the region could be decided.

The King said that he was prepared to believe what Israelis have told him — that a right-wing Government in Israel is better able to deliver peace than the Left.

“All eyes will be looking to Washington,” he said. “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.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6261925.ece

[BlooInBloo]

1. "this is just another American Government that is going to let us all down."...

While I acknowledge the desirability of US leadership, they're still the ones actually doing the shooting of each other. No matter what we do, they're letting themselves down more than the US ever could.

[polichick]

2. That's what I was thinking - isn't it time they simply decided enough is enough??

[babylonsister]

3. I really like the Jordanian king, but

this seems a bit over the top.

[babylonsister]

4. This is the prez forum. We shouldn't acknowledge this? It's so

important!