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Jordan’s Abdullah says he backs an Israel-Saudi deal, but don’t forget the Palestinians
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Jordanian King Abdullah II, left, is escorted to the podium to address the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Jordan’s King Abdullah says he supports the US effort to broker a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia but insists that you can’t “parachute over Palestine and make deals with Israel.”
This appears to be one of the first times that the Jordanian leader has weighed in on the Biden administration effort and comes a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed similar support.
“The best deal is when everyone walks out of the table slightly unhappy,” Abdullah adds in reference to the ongoing normalization negotiations, during a live interview at a conference in New York hosted by the Al-Monitor news site.
