King Abdullah & Abbas reject Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan’s King Abdullah and PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas have broken their 15 months long silence by finally rejecting the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution – first published in Saudi Arabia on 8 June 2022 – that shredded the failed two-state solution pursued by Saudi Arabia and the Arab League since 2002 (Arab Peace Initiative). Read more

MBS: Is Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution dead or alive?

Following the announcement that Saudi Arabia and Iran intend resuming diplomatic relations within the next two months – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister – Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) – needs to urgently answer this one question: “Is the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published on 8 June 2022 by your confidant Ali Shihabi dead – or is it still alive?” Read more

Secret talks paving way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The bombshell revelation that senior aides of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have been holding secret talks for almost two months further confirms the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) acceptance of the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (Saudi Solution) as the basis for negotiating an end to 100 years of conflict between Arabs and Jews. Read more

New two-state solution: Israel & Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Indications that a new two-state solution – Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine – continues to progress towards its successful implementation – were in evidence again this past week. Read more

Abdullah & Bibi keep moving on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan’s King Abdullah and Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu continue their march forward to implementing the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (Saudi Solution). Read more

Netanyahu Pays Surprise Visit to Jordan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has paid a surprise visit to Jordan, where he met in Amman with King Abdullah. It was Netanyahu’s first foreign trip since becoming Prime Minister in December. Read more

Jordan and Israel can end the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict

It took Jordan’s King Abdullah II just 10 minutes to fly by helicopter from Jordan to Ramallah on 26 March to meet Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah – which is only 15 minutes’ drive from Jerusalem – Abdullah’s first trip to Judea and Samaria (West Bank) since 2017. Read more

Jordan is the Palestinian State: Hussein and Abdullah differ

It is rare for CNN host Fareed Zakaria to issue an apology – but he did so after interviewing Jordan’s King Abdullah II last week. Read more

King Abdullah cannot exclude Jordan from any two-state solution

King Abdullah’s continuing attempt to exclude Jordan from being part of any two-state solution remains the major obstacle to ending the 100-years-old unresolved Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more

Smoothing things over? President Herzog speaks with Jordan’s King Abdullah

Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke by phone with the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, who called on Saturday to congratulate him on his inauguration this week. Read more

Action – not platitudes– required from Jordan’s King Abdullah

Jordan’s King Abdullah continues to engage in platitudes – rather than concrete action – as he pontificates but does nothing to help resolve the 100 years-old Arab-Jewish conflict. Read more

Jordan’s King Abdullah tries to torpedo Trump peace plan

King Abdullah of Jordan has attempted to torpedo President Trump’s peace plan by falsely suggesting it could lead to a one-state solution – not the two-state solution Trump clearly envisages.  Read more

Saudi Arabia jolts Jordan to negotiate with Israel on Trump plan

Abdul Hameed Al-Ghabin – “a Saudi writer and a political and tribal figure”– has challenged Jordan to negotiate with Israel on President Trump’s “deal of the century”– or risk losing control of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem currently vested in Jordan under the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and the Washington Declaration. Read more

Jordanian king to Kushner: Palestinian state only possible on pre-1967 lines

Jordanian King Abdullah told White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner on Wednesday that a Palestinian state can only be created along the border lines that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War. Read more

Jordan baulks at replacing PLO in negotiations with Israel on Trump plan

President Trump’s long-awaited plan on ending the Arab-Israeli conflict will be further delayed following a flurry of diplomatic activity over the past week…writes David Singer. Read more