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Jordanian Official: We Won't Damage Security Ties with Israel for Palestinians
(Israel Hayom) Daniel Siryoti - A senior Jordanian official in Amman told Israel Hayom on Wednesday: "The Palestinian interest is obviously important to us, but what's more acute from our perspective is Jordan's national and security interest....Any framework that will keep the Palestinians in the West Bank and not create a geographical connection between the independent Palestinian state and the Hashemite Kingdom is acceptable to us." "We won't accept the presence of an international military force on Jordan's western border and certainly won't accept the presence of a Palestinian military force responsible for safeguarding the kingdom's western border. This is also the reason for our objection in the past to the diplomatic initiative spearheaded by Secretary of State John Kerry during the Obama administration, who wanted to transfer most of the Jordan Valley to the Palestinians, and proposed various and odd technological tools to preserve Jordan and Israel's security interests." "From the perspective of the Jordanian security interest, we prefer an IDF presence west of the kingdom in the Jordan Valley over any other alternative. We have no interest or intention of damaging our security relations with Israel on behalf of the Palestinians....I don't see that any Arab leader is ruining relations with the Trump administration for the Palestinians."