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Jordan Hopes to Avert Israeli Annexation of West Bank Lands

Dale Gavlak

   AMMAN - Jordan's King Abdullah II could be facing the most serious
   decisions of his 21 years on the throne, should Israel follow through
   with plans to annex parts of the West Bank on July 1, analysts say. As
   only one of two Arab peace partners with the Jewish state, they say
   such an Israeli move would spark a volatile reaction from the Jordan's
   own population and mark the end of a two-state solution which the
   monarch has championed to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian
   conflict.
   Jordanian analyst Osama Al Sharif is watching opposition grow within
   neighboring Israel to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge to
   annex some 30 percent of the West Bank which it has occupied since
   1967, including Israeli settlements and areas populated mainly by
   Palestinians.

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