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| Biden hosts Jordan's king amid tough choices in Mideast |
| 2021-07-20 |
| [AlAhram] King Abdullah is also set to have a working breakfast Tuesday with Vice President Kamala Harris and to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. First the senile figurehead, then two of the real deciders, and good reason to be terrified of both. But then, King Abdullah isn’t nearly as important in the region as he would like to be, either. Biden praises Jordan king in White House meet expected to broach Abraham Accords [IsraelTimes] US president to reportedly tell Abdullah that Trump-brokered agreements not an ‘end run’ on finding way to peace deal that includes Palestinian state. Abdullah had a difficult relationship with Trump, whom he saw as undercutting any chance for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians with his 2017 declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He also chafed at the Trump administration’s pursuit of the Abraham Accords — deals with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and Morocco that normalized relations with Israel, but left out the Palestinians. Biden has no plans to reverse US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital. His administration has even praised the Trump-brokered accords — a rare instance of the Democratic administration speaking positively of the former administration. Abdullah, for his part, praised Biden for “setting the standard” internationally in the battle against COVID-19. The US delivered 500,000 vaccines to Jordan days ahead of the king’s visit. The king also appeared to make clear that he was looking to reset the US-Jordan relationship after four bumpy years with Trump. It is unclear whether Biden raised the United States’s long-standing call to extradite Ahlam Tamimi, a Palestinian woman living in Jordan who is wanted by the US on a charge of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against American nationals. Related: Ahlam Tamimi: 2021-03-14 Interpol said to drop warrant for Sbarro pizzeria bomber Ahlam Tamimi Ahlam Tamimi: 2020-08-14 Palestinians Are Enraged at Trump's Israel-UAE Deal, Which Means It Must Be Good Ahlam Tamimi: 2019-04-03 Terrorist Tamimi Of Sbarro Massacre Says She Is Being Protected In Jordan |
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