Obama: Israel-Jordan accord proves peace always possible

This is not a peace treaty but an agreement for a cease fire. Again people around the world use it as a forum to bash Israel. As a Rabbi once said, "You will not find the word 'FAIR' in the Bible." Jordan was suppose to be the Palestinian State. Later the rest of the land was divided for the Palestinian Jews and the Plaestinian Muslims. The rest of the Arab world rejected this and the war of Independence took place in 1948. Egypt annexed the Gaza Strip while Jordan annexed what we now call the West Bank. The Palestinian Jews were exiled from the West Bank while Palestinian Muslims became citizens of Jordan. The world sat in silence. The Arabs then started the 6 Day War in 1967 inwhich Israel captured the Golan Heights, Sinai, and the West Bank. Jordan relinguished claim to the West Bank. Now everyone says the West Bank is occupied. NO ONE CALLS FOR AN INDEPENDENT: KHURDISTAN or BASQUE. Ireland and Finnland are still occupied. Look at the War Crimes in Darfur. The world is SILENT!

Israel gave land, US gave Jordan money and all Israel got was false promises and a cold peace. Jordan dumped one million of its citizens on Israel's door step to deal with who need to eventually be repatriated and welcome back home to Jordan.

Nice example of communication and cooperation, and to think that half the population of Jordan are Palestinians that fled the Israeli partition and occupation. 37% of them occupy Jordian government jobs. Perhaps if Israel treated Palestinians as equals with full civil rights, that same communication and cooperation could occur within Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Unfortunately Israel abdictated to the zealots and prioritized the confiscation of land over the humane treatment of Palestinians. It is not too late to correct that. If Israel were to negotiate with Palestinians in good faith and provide an economic stimulus coupled with technical aid, it could help a viable, prosperous Palestine evolve. The survival of Israel is dependent on how well it can mend its relations with the Arab and Muslim worlds, and that begins by correcting the historic oppression of the Palestinian people.

There is growing and somewhat intense pressure upon Jordan to cancel it's treaty with Israel withdraw it's mission and expel the Israeli ambassador. This is getting no attention. Of course not, it tends to impeach the argument that Israel can do anything it wants without consequences.

The comparison is completely false since the Jordanians are not threatened by Israel, where the Pals are. Israel is not occupying parts of Jordan, nor stealing their territory and water or demolishing their homes. There are no nightly raids of the IDF in Jordanian territory. Jordan is not disrupted by roads for colonists, etc. What Obama does not understand is that peace is impossible if you are continiously pushing your opponent in ever smaller pockets and actually cutting his lifeline.

I suggest you study things before blattering. What Israel 'gives' Jordan is the result of treaties, that mediate the claims of Syria, Jordan and Israel to the scarce resources of water in that area. Jordan for example has reneged certain rights, like building dams (as has Syria) in exchange for its share of water. In the history of the negotiations and practices, Syria and Israel have, unlike Jordan, consistently overdrawn what they were entitled to under things like the Johnson Plan. As for 'Jackie'. Drop it. You have nothing to say that's worth listening to, here or on olive groves.

As I recall there were riots and protest in Amman against the anniversary of the signing of the treaty. I guess the Great One did not hear about them, nor about the calls from the Hashemite king against Israel's actions in Samaria and Judea, areas his father refused to take back when the treaty was singed.

israel gives jordan 50 million cube of water a year for absolutely no benefit whatsoever ! this is the water amnesty international is in tears about !!

capitulated to the settlers faster than the blink of an eye. The peace between Egypy, Jordan and Israel didn't involve settlers or land demands. This one does and Obama has lost his face and showed how weak he really is against Israel's right wing who called his bluff and threw him in a corner. He has nothing to offer the Pals more than conciliatory words and empty promises. No previous US lost his credibility so fast in the M.E. like Obama. After all, he must think of his next term and beyond. What a pity !!

It seems Mr Obama is getting his info about the Middle East only from people around him who knows nothing about the real situation in Jordan. Jordanians, both Palestinians and East-River descendents are the most anti-Wadi Araba peace agreemtent with Israel, that late king Hussein undersigned under severe pressure from the USA.Exactly under similar conditions with PA leader Abbas. You rarely find Israelis on Jordanian streets. Business between the two is done only between governments, just to make the impression it is a normal relation between the two countries. In shops, you see nothing that might come from Israel. Israel is a name that is mostly used as to remember the devil on earth. Obama may be a good president for the USA, but his knowledge and his freedom to say the truth are too limited, primarily due to the restrictions every US president put upon himself to protect Israel and her"legitimite interests in the region". Unfortunately, Obama is not different to anyone before him.

Peace is self-evidently possible when negotiations are held between two sovereign states, like Jordan and Israel. A peace-settlement is improbable when negotiations are between a powerful state and the people of the territory it occupies, particularly since history shows that peace in these conditions occurs only when the occupied can, via guerilla or liberation movements, make that occupation's costs too high. Since the whole momentum of peace in the Middle East is premised on total Palestinian disarmament, while Israel is a nuclear power, the Palestinians have nothing to bargain with. Israel has everything to lose since any peace would require it to yield what is has acquired by force, and exploited to its own advantage. Palestinians have everything to gain, their homeland, waters, a normal life. Israel loses a huge settler investment, agriculture, sole control of key acquifers, and the raison d'etre for its militarized diplomacy, the existence of an eternal 'existential threat'.