Jordan’s King Abdullah II said that “the Arab world must be prepared to offer a collective guarantee of Israel’s security and integration into the Middle East in return for the setting up of a Palestinian state.”
Under a deal now being discussed by the main international parties, this would offer Israel for the first time a guarantee of its own existence and security by all countries from the Gulf to Morocco, The Times reported.
According to the plan, “the Arab countries will make a statement guaranteeing the security of Israel”, he said. This was part of what he called the “two-basket approach” agreed by the “team” of the main parties, including the United States, Russia, the European Union, the United Nations, Egypt and Jordan. It would mark an unprecedented public acceptance by all Arab states not only of Israel’s existence but of its full integration within the Middle East, the British paper said.
The King is understood to have canvassed the idea in the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia and several North African states. But the biggest barrier remains Syria, and those countries such as Iraq and Libya that have taken a consistently militant approach, said the reporter – Albawaba.com
