King of Jordan calls for all-Arab deal with Israel

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, King Abdullah of Jordan told The Times yesterday.

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.

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.
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