Jordan’s King Abdullah has said that he would support forming a “Middle East NATO” amid efforts by the US and Israel to build an anti-Iran alliance in the region.
“I would be one of the first people that would endorse a Middle East NATO,” Abdullah told CNBC in an interview that aired Friday.
Jordan is designated by the US as a major “non-NATO ally” and has a history of cooperating and drilling with the military alliance. “I’d like to see more countries in the area come into that mix,” he said.
Abdullah’s comments came after Israeli Prime Minister Benny Gantz said that Israel was working to build a US-backed military alliance in the region against Iran with a focus on integrated missile defense systems. Gantz didn’t specify what countries are involved, but Israel has stepped up cooperation with the UAE and Bahrain since signing normalization agreements in 2020.
The idea is popular in Washington, and bills were introduced in Congress that would require the Pentagon to coordinate missile defense upgrades with Israel and the US’s Arab allies in the region, including Jordan. President Biden is set to attend a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Saudi Arabia next month as part of a tour of the Middle East, where he is expected to push for more Arab military cooperation with Israel.
The Biden administration is reportedly pushing for normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which could boost military ties between the two nations. Axios reported this week that the White House has been working on a “road map for normalization” that Biden is expected to discuss with Israeli and Saudi leaders.
As all things it will boomerang and become the Arab superstate predicted.
The King Armani Suit should address Jordan’s economy, occupation of Al Quds before diving into a new adventure. These unelected Arab puppets never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
They have not learned the lessons from Saddam or Gaddafi’s fate. He is worried about Iran that is 1000 miles away while 99% of Jordan’s population is worried about the occupation entity next door.
Who cares about what the sheple thinks? If they had any honor they would’ve overthrown the corrupt monarchy ages ago. It didn’t do much good in Iraq or Egypt but atleast they tried to make things better.
Puppet.
A family of traitors, great grandpa betrayed the khelafat and turkey for the British. Then his sons and their sons continued the tradition by betraying the Palestinians and now this one continuing the family tradition.
Stop calling all those efforts at militarizing the entire Globe (as if it isn’t enough already), a NATO this or that. There’s only one NATO and that should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was.
Islam will not be happy.
They should call it Arab Cooperation Council…! How could it be a Gulf Council when Iran is not part of it…?!
Line up for your bribes.
He just got paid from MBS .
Whenever the US and Israel are mentioned in the same sentence, I smell trouble… “An anti-Iran alliance”?… What might that lead to?….
WAR? Maybe nuclear war?…….
What might be going on in Bye-done’s head?…
It’s way above Biden’s limited intellect. These efforts at global domination are the plans of a Deep (unelected) State, that transcends the sham political parties that do its bidding.
What a shame that Abdullah is now Jordan’s king.
The estimable King Hussein would never have (a) aligned Jordan with IsraHell, or (b) fallen for such nonsense as a “Middle East NATO”.
“The estimable King Hussein would never have (a) aligned Jordan with IsraHell”
You’re kidding, right?
Well, Thomas, it was pretty complicated, I’ll sure admit to that.
Well, he specifically denounced the PLO and was the second Arab head of state to conclude a peace deal with Israel.