Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi was interviewed on CNN today (Friday), hinting that his country has prevented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from flying to the United Arab Emirates. In doing so, he generally confirmed Netanyahu’s claim.
“You disrupt a religious visit, you create conditions that made this religious visit on a holy occasion impossible, and then you expect to come to Jordan and fly out of Jordan-let’s be serious here.” @AymanHsafadi on Israel blaming Jordan for PM’s canceled UAE trip. pic.twitter.com/yLDp3O7vhQ
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In his remarks during the interview, he criticized the fact that the day before the flight was canceled, Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah’s visit to the Temple Mount was also canceled due to a dispute over security arrangements at the site: “You are violating an agreement with Jordanian Crown Prince Al-Aqsa Mosque “It creates conditions that do not allow the visit to take place on a holy day for Muslims, and then you expect to come to Jordan and fly from Jordan – it is not serious,” he said.
“The visit to the Emirates was not possible due to a misunderstanding, due to the coordination of the visit to the Temple Mount,” the prime minister said yesterday. “It took us a while to straighten things out with Jordan, but we can fly, I can fly,” he added.
As is well known, the Temple Mount compound is under Jordanian and non-Israeli control, as part of the ceasefire agreements after the 1967 Six Day War. Israel and Jordan have had a peace agreement for 27 years, which manifested itself in extensive economic and security cooperation and cracked slightly in the background of Trump’s plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and the subsequent annexation of the territories, to the point of threats from Rabat.
As mentioned, Netanyahu’s visit to the United Arab Emirates, which was expected to take place last night, has been postponed for the fourth time. At the moment, no alternative date is known, but according to Netanyahu, there will be one: “I have just talked to the discourse Muhammad bin Zayd and we have agreed on three things: one, that we will have another visit very soon. Second, we will promote the green passport between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. “Thirdly, and this is very important news for the citizens of Israel, the intention of the United Arab Emirates by various means to invest in the State of Israel a huge sum of $ 10 billion, that is almost NIS 40 billion in various projects.”