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Israeli Security Advisor In Jordan
by Tareq Ayyoub
AMMAN (IslamOnline) - King Abdullah of Jordan on Sunday met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's security advisor, Danny Yatom, and discussed the possibilities of ending the nearly four-month bloody confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis.
Both discussed ways in which to bring the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians back on track.
The Jordanian news agency, Petra, indicated that Abdullah stressed the necessity to exert all possible efforts to avoid the "loss of the historic chance" to achieve a comprehensive and durable peace in the region.
He also stressed the need to end the suffering of the Palestinian people and the long-enforced siege imposed by the Israeli army in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as part of its effort to quell the Palestinian Intifada.
At least 400 have been killed, most of them Palestinian, and over 6,000 injured in an uprising which broke out on September 28th, following a visit by right wing Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon to the al-Haram al-Sharif compound in East Jerusalem.
During Yatom's visit, the Israeli official handed Abdullah a letter from Barak relating to "latest developments in the peace process", Petra added.
Yatom's visit followed a meeting between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli cabinet minister Shimon Peres held in the Gaza Strip late Saturday, also discussing efforts to end the bloody confrontation between Palestinians and the Israeli army.
Yatom, also coordinator of the Jordan-Israel relations for Israel, is widely remembered by Jordanians as responsible for the assassination attempt against the politburo chief of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, Khalid Misha'al in 1997.
Yatom submitted his resignation as the head of the Israeli secret service, Mossad, following the attempt, and other similar operations against Hezbollah in Europe and Cyprus.
The attempt against Misha'al's life came despite a Jordan-Israel peace treaty signed in 1994 in order to end 47 years of hostility between the two sides.
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