Jordan rejects American call to improve ties with Jewish state

[Chris]

Jordan rejects American call to improve ties with Jewish state
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington

Jordan on Monday joined Saudi Arabia in publicly rejecting US appeals to improve relations with Israel to help restart Middle East peace talks, throwing a damper on President Barack Obama's administration's push for Arab support behind new negotiations. After talks with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said incremental confidence-building measures that the US wants Arab states to take will not produce a resolution to the conflict. As Clinton looked on, Judeh said only a focus on the final settlement would work.

"In the Middle East, there has been in the past an overinvestment, perhaps, by the parties in pursuing confidence-building measures, conflict-management techniques, including transitional arrangements, and an overemphasis on gestures, perhaps at the expense of reaching the actual end game," he said at a State Department news conference with Clinton. Judeh said that "piecemeal approaches that never lead to peace and that have proven repeatedly to be confidence-eroding, rather than confidence-building" must be avoided. And, he criticized Israel for its refusal to halt construction of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory and said the Israelis should respond to a 2002 Arab peace offer. "Now, in 2009, many would say it is time for Israel to reciprocate," he said.

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[Chris]

This shows how serious the islamists are about peace with Israel. They want Israel to do all the giving and them all the taking.

[open door]

This shows how serious the islamists are about peace with Israel. They want Israel to do all the giving and them all the taking.

Exactly right, Chris. And, what a blow all this must deliver to hillary/obama's egos

[Chris]

"In the Middle East, there has been in the past an overinvestment, perhaps, by the parties in pursuing confidence-building measures, conflict-management techniques, including transitional arrangements, and an overemphasis on gestures, perhaps at the expense of reaching the actual end game," he said at a State Department news conference with Clinton. Judeh said that "piecemeal approaches that never lead to peace and that have proven repeatedly to be confidence-eroding, rather than confidence-building" must be avoided. And, he criticized Israel for its refusal to halt construction of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory and said the Israelis should respond to a 2002 Arab peace offer. "Now, in 2009, many would say it is time for Israel to reciprocate," he said.

Israel has always reciprocated like with the disengagement, etc. and none of that genuine desire for peace has ever been returned. Everytime the Israelis give up something or offer a gesture the islamics demand more. I hope Israel puts her foot down and says no more!! They should not give up one more inch of the Holyland.