Evaluating peace agreements : the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty of 1994, 16 years later : a Jordanian perspective

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This study aims at assessing and analyzing the Jordanian-Israeli peace agreement of 1994, and the parties’ subsequent relationship as well as their compliance mainly from a Jordanian perspective.

This study argues that although both parties have been highly motivated to forge peaceful and functional relations, developments within the regional context of the Arab-Israeli conflict particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been playing a detrimental role in shaping the pace and nature of the Jordanian-Israeli ties since signing their peace treaty in 1994.

Moreover, although a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement has not been achieved yet, both Jordan and Israel continued to show their commitment to the peace treaty and that a mixture of up and downs has been characterising the order of Jordanian-Israeli relations.

The major bulk of this study is a discussion to the peace treaty of 1994, Jordanian and Israeli motivations and subsequent relations in between as well as their compliance to peace.

This study has concluded that although Jordan and Israel have been highly motivated to forge peaceful and functional relations, developments within the regional context of the Arab-Israeli conflict particularly the Israeli-Palestinian one, have been playing a detrimental role in shaping the pace and nature of the Jordanian-Israeli ties since signing their peace treaty in 1994.

Since 1995 the lack of peace on the Israeli-Palestinian track and mutual violence have negatively impacted on Amman’s relations with Tel Aviv.

Therefore, although peace is relatively working between Israel and Jordan, a comprehensive settlement for the larger Arab-Israeli conflict particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would positively impact on the pace of the ties between Jordan and Israel.