King Abdullah’s visit to Syria, was it really about peace talks?

Most of west­ern news agen­cies used this head­line Jor­dan­ian king arrives in Syria on rare trip ahead of Arab peace meet­ing, while the real­ity is the visit had noth­ing to do with Arab peace talks and Annapo­lis not even men­tioned in the final state­ment.

Notice this line:

the impor­tance of the pos­i­tive role Syria could play to guar­an­tee secu­rity and sta­bil­ity in Lebanon

So why Abdul­lah the King of Jor­dan, one of US allies in the Mid­dle East broke Syria ‘s iso­la­tion as ordered by the Amer­i­cans? [he even gets his present for doing so: Syria to release Jor­dan pris­on­ers]

Aluf Benn’s report on Haaretz few days ago explains the following:

the Israelis want talks with the Syr­i­ans and moves against Iran.….Israel wants [Syria] “to dis­tance it[self] from Iran”.…The Israelis pro­posed a deal of “Iran in place of Lebanon”

The plan became more clear yes­ter­day “Olmert, Barak hint at desire to renew Syr­ian talks”

Abdul­lah visit is the start of other future vis­its by US-friends camp to Syria as revealed today by sada­so­ria:

Syr­ian sources revealed that the sum­mit held on Sun­day between Pres­i­dent Assad and the Jor­dan­ian King Abdul­lah II, opens new hori­zons of series sum­mits between Pres­i­dent Assad and other Arab leaders.

There are inten­sive com­mu­ni­ca­tions to arrange a meet­ing between the Syr­ian pres­i­dent and the Saudi King.… the com­ing days will wit­ness con­tacts at the high­est lev­els between Dam­as­cus and Cairo.