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...Jordan, another country to have made its peace with the Jewish state, officially at least, angry members of parliament burned the Israeli flag in a rare parliamentary protest. "It has been proven that making peace with Israel is a strategic mistake," a senior Jordanian official told TIME. "Israel is proving every day that it is not interested in peace. The Israeli actions are spitting in the face of Jordan and Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas Military Barely Dented by Israeli Attacks | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

...Olmert and Barak listened carefully but pointed out that Israel cannot stand idle while the rockets are falling," said one Jordanian official who requested anonymity. Abdullah, says this official, was angered when Olmert's advisers told the Israeli media after the meeting that Abdullah's intervention was driven by concern over the fate of his monarchy. On the contrary, says this Jordanian official. "We warned Israel that they were making matters worse with Jordan and Egypt. But they chose not to see it that way," said the official. But even if the interventions of the U.S. and its Arab allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Puts Pressure on Israel to Refrain from Attacks | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...strengthen the case against Israel invading Gaza, U.S. officials turned to Jordan's King Abdullah for help in stemming the rocket attacks from Gaza, according to knowledgeable Palestinian and Jordanian officials. Because the U.S. has avoided direct talks with the militant Hamas movement, which runs Gaza but which the U.S. deems a terrorist organization, Abdullah was approached to act as a go-between, these sources told TIME. The Jordanian monarch complied with the U.S. request and last week dispatched a senior intelligence officer to Damascus to warn exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal that Gaza was in danger of an Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Puts Pressure on Israel to Refrain from Attacks | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Damascus, Hamas leader Mashaal reportedly agreed to the request to halt rocket attacks and relayed orders to Gaza, Jordanian sources say. On Wednesday, according to sources in Gaza, senior Hamas military commanders met with leaders of Islamic Jihad and other smaller militant bands and ordered them to stop firing rockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Puts Pressure on Israel to Refrain from Attacks | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...theory behind the new Palestinian security force - whose months of training by Jordanian police was supported and funded by the U.S. State Department, with a U.S. security coordinator, General Keith Dayton, acting as adviser to the Palestinians - is to persuade skeptical Israelis that Palestinians can ensure security inside the West Bank, a first step in building trust that would allow Israel to turn over control to the Palestinian Authority as part of any peace agreement. So far, the plan has succeeded: The streets are safer for ordinary Palestinians, and Israelis have more confidence in their Palestinian security counterparts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinian Forces in the Hebron Minefield | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

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