Jordan's King Abdullah Visits Sharon in Israel

drdon326

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Fri Mar-19-04 12:19 PM
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Jordan's King Abdullah Visits Sharon in Israel

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040319/wl_nm/mideast_dc

Jordan's King Abdullah secretly visited Prime Minister Ariel Sharon 's ranch to voice concern over Israel's West Bank barrier and plans to disengage from the Palestinians, a senior political source said on Friday.

The monarch flew into Israel by helicopter on Thursday and spent several hours in talks with Sharon before returning home.

"The visit was meant to allay King Abdullah's fears that construction of the fence will prompt a flight of Palestinians over the border into Jordan," the source said about the controversial barrier now under World Court scrutiny.

Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, took in a large number of Palestinians displaced in the 1948 and 1967 Israeli-Arab wars.

Jordan fears another exodus from the West Bank if the barrier makes life impossible for Palestinians, separated from their farms, schools and hospitals. Israeli sources said Sharon promised the king to block any such mass movement.

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donsu

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Fri Mar-19-04 12:43 PM
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1. ranch? Israel has ranches?

Secret meeting? why secret?

a secret meeting about keeping Palestine people out of Jordan.
and just how will that be accomplished? shock and awe?

looks like the King of Jordan has changed sides. didn't he visit Smirk a short while ago? wonder what they bribed and/or threatened him with?

(I know, I know, question marks all over the place)

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bedtimeforbonzo

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Fri Mar-19-04 03:10 PM
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2. Jordan has murdered

as many Palestinians as Israel has. Just not lately.

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Muddleoftheroad

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Fri Mar-19-04 03:15 PM
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3. Jordan has Israel beat in body count

Edited on Fri Mar-19-04 03:16 PM by Muddleoftheroad

But they aren't murders.

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lumpy

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Mon Mar-22-04 04:04 PM
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7. Shall we get into

the USof A body count also?

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drdon326

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Fri Mar-19-04 07:02 PM
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4. It sure seems...

the king is quaking in his boots at the prospect of more
palestinians migrating to his country. I'm shocked at
his attitude.

Almost as if his country had a bad experience in the past.

He's so scared at the prospect he flies to israel....secretly.

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Muddleoftheroad

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Mon Mar-22-04 07:44 AM
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5. I think it's safe to say

We all know what Sharon and King Abdullah talked about the other day. He was both warning and getting the king's OK about killing Yassin.

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lumpy

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Mon Mar-22-04 03:49 PM
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6. No, it is not safe to say

we know what Sharon and Abdullah talked about. If this is a feeble attempt to impute Abdullah's integrity, it's not going to work.

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