Israel and Syria are “at the threshhold of a breakthrough,” Jordan’s King Abdullah told a delegation of some 18 Jewish officials at a meeting Monday in Washington. Abdullah told the officials that Syrian President Hafez Assad referred in a recent meeting to “when” Syria has peace with Israel, not “if,” according to participants. Abdullah, who met with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright earlier in the day and is due at the White House on Tuesday, also pledged his country’s full commitment to peace with Israel and promised in the wake of Ehud Barak’s election victory to “help the peace process along.”
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