SHAFAQNA- Press TV: Jordan’s King Abdullah II has met with US President Donald Trump‘s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner in Amman as part of a tour of the Middle East aimed to push for a controversial US plan on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The royal court said in a statement that King Abdullah and Kushner discussed “efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” during their meeting on Wednesday.
During the meeting, King Abdullah II, who acts as the custodian of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem al-Quds, stressed “the need to achieve a just and lasting peace to ensure the establishment of an independent Palestinian state… with east Jerusalem [al-Quds] as its capital, living in peace and security alongside Israel,” according to the statement.
Earlier this month, an official in Trump’s administration said Kushner would lead a US delegation on a tour of the Middle East to further push the US’s “deal of the century,” adding that he is expected to make stops in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
The Palestinians have already rejected Trump’s Middle East initiative, which is widely reported to be highly biased in favor of the Israeli regime, as “the slap of the century.”
The Washington Post said in April that the plan is likely to “stop short of ensuring a separate, fully sovereign Palestinian state.”
The economic portion of Trump’s deal, which would inject $50 billion into struggling economies in the Middle East over the next ten years, was unveiled in June by Kushner during a conference in Bahrain. All Palestinian factions have boycotted the event, slamming Washington for what they view as an attempt to offer financial rewards for Palestinians to accept the Israeli occupation.
King Abdullah said, according to the royal court, that any peace plan should be based on the so-called two-state solution and in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative.
The Arab Peace Initiative, proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, calls on Israel to agree to a two-state solution along the 1967 lines and a “just” solution to the Palestinian refugee issue, in exchange for normalization between all Arab states and Israel. The initiative has been repeatedly endorsed by the Arab League in 2002, 2007, and 2017.
Jordan is one of only two Arab states to have full diplomatic relations with Israel.
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