?Beyond the news: Israeli-Arab intelligence summit held in Aqaba .. What details

?Beyond the news: Israeli-Arab intelligence summit held in Aqaba .. What details
The international media have shown great interest in what was revealed Thursday by the French security magazine, Englens Online, that an "intelligence summit" was held in Aqaba, Jordan, and gathered heads of intelligence services in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan , And the Palestinian Authority.
"The meeting, which took place a day before the surprise meeting that finally brought together Jordan's King Abdullah II and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was attended by the head of the Mossad, the newspaper Maariv, The head of the Jordanian intelligence, and the head of the General Intelligence in the Palestinian Authority, Majid Faraj. "
The magazine revealed that the chief adviser to US President Donald Trump, his brother-in-law, Jared Kouchner, and his envoy to the region, Jason Greenblatt, were the organizers of the meeting.
Although the French magazine did not clearly indicate the purpose of the meeting, it indicated that the meeting represented an attempt to influence the position of the Palestinian Authority on the American plan for settlement, known as the "Deal of the Century" as well as discuss the arrangement of the succession issue of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, That Majed Faraj has great acceptance of the US administration.
She noted that Faraj held meetings with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he was director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
On the day after the meeting, Netanyahu held a meeting with the King of Jordan on June 18, discussing the US plan for a settlement alongside the situation in Syria.
Yossi Melman, an intelligence commentator at Maariv, said that meetings between the Mossad leaders and the Saudi intelligence chiefs were no longer surprising. He pointed out that former Mossad chief Mani Ridgan had already met with his Saudi counterpart, Bandar bin Sultan, and that the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert met in 2006 Bandar in Amman, noting that the meeting was held at the time under the auspices of the Royal Court of Jordan.
Melman recalled the fact that Netanyahu was finally showing off the great development in the secret relations between Israel and the Sunni states and his emphasis on the growing mutual interests of the two sides, particularly the desire to confront the dangers posed by Iran.
Melman explained that Kouchner and Greenblatt were trying to push the "deal of the century" forward, pointing out at the same time that Abbas refused to discuss the plan, and decided to sever contacts with the US administration in the wake of the United States to move its embassy to Jerusalem.
 Source: Agencies