Late last month, Jordan’s King Abdullah II allowed that he would be “one of the first people that would endorse a Middle East NATO,” adding that “we’ve got to very clearly define, what is our role … The mission statement has to be very, very clear.”
The statement came ahead of Biden’s visit to the region, and follows the recent announcement by Benny Gantz, Israel’s defense minister, that Israel is participating in a U.S.-led, regional joint air defense network known as the “Middle East Air Defense Alliance,” or MEAD.
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