From The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report:
Jordanian King Enlists Palestinian President In Bid To Reconcile With Hamas
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U.S. media is reporting that King Abdullah of Jordan has paid a visit to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to reconcile with Hamas. According to a Wall Street Journal report:
By JOSHUA MITNICK RAMALLAH, West Bank—King Abdullah II of Jordan paid a rare visit here to join Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his effort to reconcile with the militant Palestinian group Hamas and take defensive action against the rise of political Islam.After getting clearance from Israel, which controls the airspace over the West Bank, the Jordanian monarch flew the short distance by helicopter, landing late Monday morning at Mr. Abbas’s headquarters in Ramallah for the first time in more than a decade.The two U.S.-allied leaders are faced with a defunct peace process with Israel and expectations of a strong showing for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian elections scheduled to begin next week, following the recent election success of Tunisia’s Islamists. Mr. Abbas, meanwhile, has lost some political traction after his bid to get the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state stalled this month.Those events have compelled King Abdullah and Mr. Abbas to reconcile with Hamas, said Palestinian officials and analysts, in hopes of gaining broader political support and containing the group, which is the Palestinian affiliate of the Brotherhood.”Growing success for the Brotherhood will isolate the secular movements in the region—including Jordan and Palestine,” said Imad Musleh, a political columnist for the al Quds newspaper in Jerusalem. “That is why these two men are sitting together today.”U.S.-allied Arab countries such as Jordan and Egypt have largely shunned Hamas. Jordan expelled Hamas officials in 1999, and later initiated a crackdown against the group.
Jordanian King Enlists Palestinian President In Bid To Reconcile With Hamas
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U.S. media is reporting that King Abdullah of Jordan has paid a visit to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to reconcile with Hamas. According to a Wall Street Journal report:
By JOSHUA MITNICK RAMALLAH, West Bank—King Abdullah II of Jordan paid a rare visit here to join Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his effort to reconcile with the militant Palestinian group Hamas and take defensive action against the rise of political Islam.After getting clearance from Israel, which controls the airspace over the West Bank, the Jordanian monarch flew the short distance by helicopter, landing late Monday morning at Mr. Abbas’s headquarters in Ramallah for the first time in more than a decade.The two U.S.-allied leaders are faced with a defunct peace process with Israel and expectations of a strong showing for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian elections scheduled to begin next week, following the recent election success of Tunisia’s Islamists. Mr. Abbas, meanwhile, has lost some political traction after his bid to get the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state stalled this month.Those events have compelled King Abdullah and Mr. Abbas to reconcile with Hamas, said Palestinian officials and analysts, in hopes of gaining broader political support and containing the group, which is the Palestinian affiliate of the Brotherhood.”Growing success for the Brotherhood will isolate the secular movements in the region—including Jordan and Palestine,” said Imad Musleh, a political columnist for the al Quds newspaper in Jerusalem. “That is why these two men are sitting together today.”U.S.-allied Arab countries such as Jordan and Egypt have largely shunned Hamas. Jordan expelled Hamas officials in 1999, and later initiated a crackdown against the group.
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