What is the story of the Crown Prince of Jordan canceling his visit to Al-Aqsa and his relationship to preventing Netanyahu's plane from crossing the Emirates?

In a scene that revealed the depth of the diplomatic crisis between the Jordanian royal court and the Israeli prime minister's office, Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to postpone his visit to the Emirates, which was to take place today, Thursday, after Amman refused the passage of his plane through Jordanian airspace.

The Jordanian refusal, which forced Netanyahu to postpone his visit to the Emirates, for the fourth time, came in response to the security arrangements and conditions set by Tel Aviv for the visit that was scheduled for Wednesday evening for the Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah to occupied Jerusalem to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the occasion of the memory of Isra and Mi'raj.

The Jordanian Crown Prince, his companions and the security team arrived on Wednesday evening at the King Hussein Bridge crossing, but he canceled the visit, which was coordinated in all its details with the Israeli side.

Between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi

According to the Israeli media, Jordan has canceled the visit due to the conditions set by Tel Aviv and differences with Amman over the security measures that will be adopted in the grounds of the Temple Mount, and which consecrate occupational sovereignty during the visit of the Crown Prince, in contradiction to the provisions of the Wadi Araba Agreement, which recognizes Jordanian sovereignty. On the holy sites in Jerusalem.

The Israeli media claimed that the Jordanian side did not fulfill the conditions of the prior arrangements, and brought in more security guards, confirming that when the Israeli side insisted on implementing the conditions and preventing the entry of the security escort of the Crown Prince, the latter decided to cancel the visit.

And before the official announcement by Tel Aviv of canceling Netanyahu's visit to the Emirates due to the Jordanian position, the official Israeli radio reported, "Kan" this morning, Thursday, that Netanyahu is considering canceling his visit to the Emirates because his wife Sarah entered the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, following appendicitis, She will be subjected to surgery and she is expected to stay in the hospital for several days.

In an attempt to dispel and reduce the tension between Netanyahu's office and the royal court, the "Walla" website quoted high-ranking Israeli diplomatic sources as saying that Jordan later informed Tel Aviv that it was allowing Netanyahu's plane to cross Jordanian airspace.

But the political correspondent of the website, Barak Rafid, explained that "Tel Aviv refrained from visiting because the report came late, as it was agreed between Netanyahu's office and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, to coordinate another date for the visit of the Israeli prime minister."

Acknowledgment of differences

For his part, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office admitted that the postponement of Netanyahu's visit to the Emirates was due to the Jordanian position refusing to cross Netanyahu's plane, in the first official Israeli statement about the lukewarmness and the continuous tension behind the scenes in relations between Tel Aviv and Amman.

"It was expected that Prime Minister Netanyahu, today, Thursday, will visit the Emirates, but due to difficulties that occurred in coordinating the passage of his trip through the Jordanian airspace, they were postponed," said a statement issued by Netanyahu's office.

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office acknowledged in his statement that the Jordanian position, which forced Netanyahu to cancel his visit to the UAE, apparently stemmed from the cancellation of the Jordanian Crown Prince's visit to the Holy Mosque, due to a dispute over the security measures that are being taken at Al-Aqsa.

Netanyahu receives UAE Ambassador to Israel Muhammad Al Khajah (Israeli Press)

Blatant prejudice to Al-Aqsa

For his part, Itamar Eichner, political correspondent for the Ynet website, explained that Israeli estimates indicate that Jordan considered the conditions of Tel Aviv and the security arrangements for the visit of the Crown Prince to Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa as a blatant violation of the blessed mosque, and therefore Jordan did not allow Netanyahu's plane to cross its airspace.

The political correspondent revealed that the UAE planned to send a plane carrying Netanyahu from Israel, as a private business plane belonging to a company run by the ruling family in Abu Dhabi was scheduled to arrive Thursday morning at Ben Gurion Airport to take off with Netanyahu's entourage to Abu Dhabi airport.

However, according to the Israeli reporter Eichner, the Emirati plane stopped to wait, on Wednesday evening, for several hours at Queen Alia International Airport in the capital, Amman, and Thursday noon, and the flight of the Emirati private plane was updated in the operating system of Ben Gurion Airport as "canceled" and after the flight was canceled, it took off The plane from Oman airport and back to the Emirates.

Gantz and Ashkenazi

About two weeks ago, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said after an unannounced meeting with King Abdullah II in the capital, Amman, "Relations with Jordan are a tremendous asset, and relations could be a thousand times better," according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

"Netanyahu is a persona non grata in Jordan, and his presence is inconsistent with strengthening relations between the two countries," Gantz added, stressing that he has continuous and close contacts with the king and other Jordanian officials, believing that "it is possible to reach dozens of cooperation agreements through joint civil projects that would greatly enhance the relationship." ".