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| US envoy Mike Waltz raises ‘need for stability in West Bank’ in talks with Jordan’s king |
| 2025-12-09 |
| [IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz …an interesting man, his background includes reaching colonel in Green Berets, Congressman from Florida, briefly President Trump’s National Security Advisor, and VP Dick Cheney’s counterterrorism advisor. One assumes he was not the one who raised the issue here… discussed “the need for stability in the West Bank” during a meeting yesterday with Jordan’s King Abdullah, according to an American readout.This appears to be a reference to Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, which the Trump administration has gradually and gingerly begun weighing in on, as the phenomenon has continued on a near-daily basis with almost complete impunity. Not exactly. There have been a few arrests, and yesterday four illegal hilltop settlements were closed down. We’re still not getting the full story about misbehaviour on the Palestinian side, which is annoying. Waltz was in Jordan for meetings with senior officials in the Hashemite kingdom, primarily to discuss the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan, along with the humanitarian situation in the Strip.Waltz, whose wife is Jordanian, “thanked the king for all of Jordan’s efforts to bring humanitarian relief to Palestinians,” the US readout on yesterday’s meeting says. She seems interesting, too: child of Jordanian Christian immigrants, she was a captain in Army intelligence, then later Trump’s Homeland Security advisor and Ron DeSantis’s chief resilience officer, among other interests. Waltz crossed the Allenby Crossing into the West Bank this morning and is in Israel for meetings with top officials today.US envoy thanks PM for reopening Allenby Crossing for Gaza aid in Jerusalem meeting [IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met earlier today with US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz to discuss the advancement of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan to its second phase. During the Jerusalem meeting, “Waltz welcomed Israel’s cooperation on expanding border crossings, including the Allenby-King Hussein Bridge crossing, for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and emphasized the importance of continued collaboration to address regional stability,” says a US readout. Israel stopped allowing Gaza aid in through the Jordan-West Bank crossing in September after a driver ferrying assistance to the Strip opened fire at Israeli soldiers at the gate, killing two of them. Related: Allenby Crossing: 2025-09-25 Israel closes border crossing between West Bank and Jordan until further notice Allenby Crossing: 2025-09-19 Two soldiers killed by knifeman driving Gaza-bound aid truck at West Bank-Jordan crossing Allenby Crossing: 2024-10-23 Israel says 230 trucks have reached north Gaza in 9 days since aid was blocked for two weeks |
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