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Abdullah & Obama to Meet in April in DC
By Micah Halpern

Tuesday April 14, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

King Abdullah of Jordan will visit Washington DC and meet with President Barrack Obama on April 21, 2009.

The objective of the meeting is simple and clear.
Jordan wants the US to take a much more active role in the Middle East.
Jordan wants the US to pressure Israel to make concessions.
Most importantly, Jordan wants the United States to urge Israel to accept the Saudi plan.

Without a doubt, the meeting will be enormously positive and each party will be more than pleased with the results of their mini-summit.
Both the US and Jordan will agree that the biggest obstacle to the entire peace plan is Israel.
Both the US and Jordan will agree that the US is better able to apply the pressure necessary to change Israel's stance than any other third party in the world.

The problem with this conclusion is two fold.
The first problem is that Obama will not be totally honest with King Abdullah. Obama will say what Jordan and the rest of the Arab world wants to hear, but not necessarily what reflects reality.

The second and a very significant problem is that Israel knows what the end result will be even in advance of the meeting. Israel will know that the US and especially Obama has begun a duplicitous negotiation. Israel will understand that Obama's objectives are not necessarily in sync with Israel's interests on the matter of peace.

It is not good enough to pressure Israel or to buy into the regional Middle East plan.
Netanyahu and his new administration will rightly insist that any progress must be predicated on real Palestinian change regarding fighting terror and on the Palestinians changing their vehement anti-Israel teachings.

Bottom line: this meeting between Barack and Abdullah will be an abysmal failure for US diplomacy.

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