Egypt and Jordan quietly back Abbas, too | csmonitor.com

Egypt and Jordan quietly back Abbas, too csmonitor.com:

"Amman, Jordan, and Rafah, Egypt - – The creation of separate Palestinian
micro-states last week left two of America's closest Arab allies – Jordan and
Egypt, which share borders with the West Bank and Gaza respectively – groping
for a new policy toward a conflict that has spilled over their borders and
contributes to their own instability.
These two secular and authoritarian
states have far more in common with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah,
which now controls the West Bank, than with the Islamist Hamas that won last
week's war for control of Gaza. When Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006
that were deemed free and fair, it set alarm bells ringing in Cairo and Amman;
they worried their local Islamists would be bolstered by Hamas's success. "

The whole region needs peace, the whole region needs stability and the whole region needs to learn to accept that Israel is not going to be wiped off the map. The whole region will benefit from growth and open trade that is being held back by the on going conflicts.