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Jordanian minister: Trump can bring peace to the Middle East that we have lacked for decades

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New US President Donald Trump is seen by Jordan as a potential partner who “can achieve what others failed to do in the past and bring the peace that has eluded us for decades,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said in a speech at the Davos Forum.

"We agree with him that a comprehensive peace is in everyone's interest," said Safadi, who acknowledged the important role played by Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, in finally achieving a ceasefire in Gaza, just days before the inauguration of the new US president.

The Jordanian top diplomat and deputy prime minister said that the cessation of hostilities opens an opportunity to achieve solutions in the region that are not focused only on short-term security, since if this mentality continues, he said, "we will be in the same situation in two or three years."

“Looking at the history of the conflict, we cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results. We did not have a vision for the future and that is why we walk in vicious circles of violence every few years,” he said.

A lasting peace, he said, must involve "a two-state solution, in which a Palestinian state can live in peace alongside a secure, accepted and normalized Israel in the region."

To achieve this, Safadi said, “Gaza and the West Bank must be one entity, the Palestinian Authority must assume responsibility for Gaza, and as a government it must have the exclusive decision on peace and war. There must be no militias in the Strip.”

“We need to find a way for the two peoples (Palestinian and Israeli) to live together, because neither of them is going to leave. It is a problem with global implications that they alone cannot solve, it is everyone's responsibility to find a way and force its implementation,” the foreign minister stressed.

A lasting peace in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, he said, would open up peace in the entire region and reduce Iran's interference in that and other issues, he added, recalling that in the last Iranian missile offensive against Israel, more Jordanians were injured than Israelis.

Safadi acknowledged that with the ceasefire in Gaza in place, but with violent incidents in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), the situation in that territory bordering Jordan is worrying: “It can destabilize the region, so we are working with Israel, the United States, European partners, to make sure it does not explode.”

On other regional issues, the Jordanian minister was optimistic about Lebanon, “which is experiencing significant changes not only because of the ceasefire but also with a new internal political dynamic” following the formation of a new government.

In Syria, “everyone is celebrating the end of the previous regime under which so many people had suffered,” and now the question is whether the new authorities will fulfil their promises of a new government inclusive of all ethnicities and beliefs, he said.

“Jordan hosts three million Syrian refugees and we are in no hurry for them to return. In the end they will have to do so, voluntarily, but we have to invest to create an environment (in Syria) that allows them to do so,” he said.

Safadi stressed that one of the great challenges in that neighboring country is in the northeast, where Kurdish factions continue to be active, and therefore recommended that the promises of the country's new authorities be fulfilled to also include that people in the new Syria. EFE and Aurora

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  1. The solution must be to take all their brothers from Gaza, Judea and Samaria to Jordan and thus leave Israel in peace. And that Israel can recover the land that God gave them as an inheritance and that they have stolen from them.

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