Jordan's king warns Cheney on Mideast

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Jordan's king warns Cheney on Mideast

By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 14, 7:01 AM ET

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's king warned visiting U.S. Vice President
Dick Cheney Monday that time was running out to use an Arab peace
plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a royal
palace statement.

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Abdullah said the Arab peace initiative, which was first launched in
2002 and revived at an Arab summit earlier this year, "still represented
an opportunity to advance peace and end the Arab-Israeli conflict."

"Time is not on anyone's side," Abdullah warned. He did not elaborate,
but he has previously said that the absence of peacemaking is
increasing the popularity of extremists across the Muslim world.

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The king suggested to Cheney that there was a need to "set a time
frame to establish tangible results on the ground" related to Israeli-
Palestinian peacemaking.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_cheney

[Englander]

1. Haaretz;

Jordan's king: More violence unless progress made in peace process

By The Associated Press

Jordan's King Abdullah II said Thursday he was very concerned by the wave of inter-Palestinian fighting in Gaza and warned that more violence will come unless progress is in the peace process.

The monarch spoke at a gathering of Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian peace activists in this southern port as fighting in Gaza between the mainstream Fatah faction and the militant Hamas entered its fifth day.

"I'm very concerned about the violence in Gaza. It must stop for the sake of the Palestinian people and for the sake of Palestine," Abdullah told the gathering.

He pointed to an land-for-peace initiative for which Arab countries are trying to win Arab acceptance as an opportunity to achieve peace between Israel and its neighbors. The initiative offers Israel peace with all Arab countries if it withdraws from lands seized in the 1967 Mideast War.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/860753.html