Israel and Jordan sign historic airspace agreement

[PeteS in CA]

Israel and Jordan sign historic airspace agreement

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israel-and-jordan-sign-historic-aviation-agreement-645030

Israel and Jordan reached an agreement allowing flights to cross over both countries’ airspace, the Transportation Ministry announced on Thursday.

The deal allows flights crossing over one country to also fly over the other.

The agreement will significantly shorten the length of flights from Israel to the Gulf and East Asia, cutting the time it takes to travel between countries and cutting gas costs and pollution.

It will also allow the UAE and Bahrain, which recently made peace with Israel, along with other countries in the region, to fly over Israeli airspace.

Looks like the key to all this was that nobody wanted to be the first to do an agreement, but after the first, being second, third, or Nth became increasingly less difficult.

[Absalom]

Israel and Jordan sign historic airspace agreement.
Looks like the key to all this was that nobody wanted to be the first to do an agreement, but after the first, being second, third, or Nth became increasingly less difficult.

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For some, all this mid-east politicking rivals the Treaty of Westphalia. Why of course.
Israel and Jordan share a 400 km. common border and have never been enemies. Never!
As for Bahrain, the Emirates and Israel, they have never been at war. Never!

[PeteS in CA]

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Israel and Jordan share a 400 km. common border and have never been enemies. Never!
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Wow! You better set W'pedia straight, Part 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War#King_Abdullah_I_of_Transjordan

King Abdullah was the commander of the Arab Legion, the strongest Arab army involved in the war according to Rogan and Shlaim in 2007.[76] However, Morris wrote in 2008 that the Egyptian army was the most powerful and threatening army. The Arab Legion had about 10,000 soldiers, trained and commanded by British officers.
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The neighbouring Arab states pressured Abdullah into joining them in an "all-Arab military invasion" against the newly created State of Israel, that he used to restore his prestige in the Arab world, which had grown suspicious of his relatively good relationship with Western and Jewish leaders. Jordan's undertakings not to cross partition lines were not taken at face value. While repeating assurances that Jordan would only take areas allocated to a future Arab state, on the eve of war Tawfik Abu al-Huda told the British that were other Arab armies to advance against Israel, Jordan would follow suit. On 23 May Abdullah told the French consul in Amman that he "was determined to fight Zionism and prevent the establishment of an Israeli state on the border of his kingdom".

Abdullah's role in this war became substantial. He saw himself as the "supreme commander of the Arab forces" and "persuaded the Arab League to appoint him" to this position. Through his leadership, the Arabs fought the 1948 war to meet Abdullah's political goals.

Wow! You better set W'pedia straight, Part 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War#Armies

The Jordanian Armed Forces included 11 brigades, totalling 55,000 troops. Nine brigades (45,000 troops, 270 tanks, 200 artillery pieces) were deployed in the West Bank, including the elite armoured 40th, and two in the Jordan Valley. They possessed sizable numbers of M113 APCs and were equipped with some 300 modern Western tanks, 250 of which were U.S. M48 Pattons. They also had 12 battalions of artillery, six batteries of 81 mm and 120 mm mortars, a paratrooper battalion trained in the new U.S.-built school and a new battalion of mechanized infantry. The Jordanian Army was a long-term-service, professional army, relatively well-equipped and well-trained. Israeli post-war briefings said that the Jordanian staff acted professionally, but was always left "half a step" behind by the Israeli moves. The small Royal Jordanian Air Force consisted of only 24 British-made Hawker Hunter fighters, six transports, and two helicopters. According to the Israelis, the Hawker Hunter was essentially on par with the French-built Dassault Mirage III – the IAF's best plane.

100 Iraqi tanks and an infantry division were readied near the Jordanian border.

and this whole section of the Six-Day War article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War#West_Bank .

  @Absalom, did you really think no one here would at least remember what happened in the Six-Day War and couldn't then look into Israel's war of independence? Or did you not know that (Trans)Jordan and Israel had fought each other?

[Absalom]

@Absalom, did you really think no one here would at least remember what happened in the Six-Day War and couldn't then look into Israel's war of independence? *****Or did you not know that (Trans)Jordan and Israel had fought each other?

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My comment that Israel and Jordan have never been enemies is an overstatement which
I withdraw; so no further need for your "rolling eyes" histrionics. As well, a perspective.
In history, it is hardly a shock that neighbors have had strained relations from time to time,
examples being France and Germany since the Gauls & Saxons as well as the USA and Mexico.
Jordan has been culturally Hashemite for some 15 centuries, having much in common w/the Jews, who are fellow ethnic Semites, as well as a long shared border.
Trans-Jordan was created a British Protectorate in 1921 and ruled by Emir Abdullah who
extended his hand in welcoming the nomadic "palestinian" malcontents after WW2,
by offering them a home and they repaid him for his generosity by assassinating him in 1950.
It is the "Palestinians" who are at the core of the chronic turmoil in the Middle-East
and emphatically not any disagreement/misunderstanding between Israel and Jordan;
whether real or imagined.