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After the Fedayeen attacks from Jordan decreased after Israel's victory in the 1956 Suez War, the tense relations between Israel and Jordan following the 1948 war eased. In the 1967 Six-Day War , Jordan aligned itself with Nasser 's Egypt despite an Israeli warning, and lost control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Israel, but did not ...
The State of Israel was formally established by the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, and was admitted to the United Nations (UN) as a full member state on 11 May 1949. [1] [2] As of December 2020, it has received diplomatic recognition from 165 (or 85%) of the 193 total UN member states, and also maintains bilateral ties with ...
The Israel–Jordan peace treaty (formally the " Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan "), [Note 1] sometimes referred to as the Wadi Araba Treaty, [1] is an agreement that ended the state of war that has existed between the two countries since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and established mutual ...
The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on April 24, 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on July 31, 1988. The period started during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when Jordan occupied and subsequently annexed the portion of Mandatory Palestine that became known as the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Historically, Jordan has had relatively warm relations with Israel compared to other Arab nations. Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco are the only Arab nations to have signed peace treaties with Israel. Kuwait's relations with Jordan weakened during the Gulf War because of Jordan's stand with Iraq.
In May 2011, Sarkozy said that if peace talks with Israel had not resumed by September, he would recognize the State of Palestine as part of its bid at the United Nations. This echoed statements made in March by Nabil Shaath, who claimed to have received a promise from France that it would recognize in September a Palestinian state on the 1967 ...
Diplomatic normalization and legitimacy. From an international relations perspective, Israel meets basic standards for legitimacy as a state. [page needed]As of 2020, 30 United Nations member states do not recognise the State of Israel: 13 of the 21 UN members in the Arab League: Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen ...
jordan.gov.jo. Jordan, [a] officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, [b] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank and Israel to the west. The Jordan River, flowing into the Dead Sea, is ...