Sorry, David. But I disagree. After all, this arrangement/road map to a peaceful solution has never required anybody other than the occupier and the occupied!

Anything else, is just more delay, obsfucation and illegal land grabbing! And the prime reason why the illegal land grabbers want to involve the king of Jordan?

To as it were, lend alleged legitimacy to their preferred two-state solution? And one where former Palestine is represented as part of Jordan? Almost as if there never ever was a nation-state called Palestine?

If the Palestinians are to be disenfranchised as you seem to want, David? why would they agree to anything at all?

And typical of activists like David? Who always seem to want to shift the allegorical goalposts, after the allegorical kick is taken?

All that I can say to any of this C.R.A.P., David is, bah humbug!
Alan B.

"King Abdullah's continuing attempt to exclude Jordan from being part of any two-state solution"
Replace this in its entirety with one word, Israel, and you might be correct.

In other words, the author expects Jordan to be punished and sacrifice itself in order to honour some words that some people uttered in the previous century, under very different conditions and when the vast majority of contemporary Jordanians were not yet born, complaining that their intransigent King refuses to place his neck nicely on the gallows and allow his country to be ruined.

Why ask King Abdullah when you could ask Scott Morrison for the same?
Suppose Australia's prime-minister was presented with some recording of his great-grandfather pledging to annex some Indonesian islands. Would he then be foolish enough to do so, granting Australian citizenship to some 8 million Indonesians (that would be about the ratio between Jordanians and "Palestinians") thus make Australia lose its unique character and become a violent backward 3rd-world country?

Perhaps the author, like the fox in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNgOTn7duaQ, may be able to convince our PM (looking at his great success with vaccinations and quarantine) to annex some Indonesian islands, but King Abdullah is so much wiser!

You seem to have overlooked the significance of a key point you've written:

> The PLO unsuccessfully tried to seize power in Jordan in 1970

That's why King Hussein cut Palestine loose. And far from ignoring it at his peril, King Abdullah has heeded the lesson!

This was just over a week ago folks.

“On Saturday, 28 July 2021, at around 3:00 P.M., Muayad Abu Sarah (al-‘Alami), a 37-year-old resident of Beit Ummar in Hebron District, drove to the entrance to the village with three of his sons. Two of them – Muhammad (11) and ‘Anan (9) – were in the back seat of the car and Ahmad (5) was sitting in front. The father noticed soldiers by the military post and drove backwards. After driving about 30 meters, he turned around, and then the soldiers opened fire at the car.”

“The choice to open fire at the car, in the heart of a populated residential area, was unjustified, as none of the passengers posed a risk — to the soldiers or to any other person. The explanation offered by the military, that the soldiers fired at the car after suspecting the passengers had buried a dead baby – has absolutely no bearing upon the shooting."

"This heinous killing of an 11-year-old boy demonstrates, yet again, how low the value of Palestinians’ lives is in the eyes of the soldiers, their commanders and the policymakers – who are responsible for the military’s lethal open-fire policy. The official statement than a Military Police investigation has been launched is merely a means of silencing criticism, and this kind of investigation is the first step towards whitewashing the incident.”
http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20210803_video_footage_proves_israeli_soldiers_shot_and_killed_11_year_old_muhammad_abu_sarah_had_no_reason_to_open_fire

Dear SteeleRedux,

«This heinous killing of an 11-year-old boy demonstrates, yet again, how low the value of Palestinians’ lives is in the eyes of the soldiers, their commanders and the policymakers»

So how is this related to the article, the good people of Jordan or their good King Abdullah?

Nothing new about the cruelty of SOME Israelis towards Palestinians, but are you implying that poor Jordan must foot the bill?