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Peace Process

Abd'Allah: Obama and I hatched new plan


By Stan Goodenough
May 11, 2009

The Obama administration is preparing to dangle in front of Israel a Middle East peace plan that offers the Jewish state the recognition of the entire Muslim world.

This is according to a report in Monday's Times of London citing Jordan's King Abd'Allah who "hatched" the plan with US President Barack Obama during a visit to Washington last month.

Obama is expected to offer the plan to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the latter travels to Washington to meet the president next week.

Details of the plan are to be "thrashed out" starting at that meeting.

Abd'Allah warned that Israel had better make every effort to secure peace with the Palestinian Arabs within the year or face another war with the Arabs within 18 months.

"We are offering a third of the world to meet them with open arms," he said according to Ha'aretz.

"The future is not the Jordan River or the Golan Heights or the Sinai, the future is Morocco in the Atlantic and Indonesia in the Pacific. That is the prize.

"If we delay our peace negotiations, then there is going to be another conflict between Arabs or Muslims and Israel in the next 12-18 months."

When offering "recognition" of Israel, the Arab world means much less than the Israelis expect.

Israel's new government last month insisted that the "Palestinians" recognize Israel specifically as a Jewish state.

The demand was dismissed out of hand by PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas, and pooh-poohed as being of little consequence by officials in Washington.

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