**Pfizer CEO **hails ‘obsessive’ Netanyahu for calling 30 times to seal vaccine deal
Speaking with Israeli TV, Albert Bourla says kids under 16 likely to soon get okay for vaccines, younger children to be vaccinated by year’s end
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Thursday praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “obsessive” efforts to secure a coronavirus vaccine deal for Israel and predicted that children younger than 16 will soon begin receiving his company’s vaccine. “He called me 30 times,” Bouria said of Netanyahu.
Speaking with Israel’s Channel 12 news, Bourla said he believed it was “a question of weeks” until kids aged 12-16 could start receiving the vaccine, but stressed that it depended on FDA approval.輝瑞公司的ceo表示以色列總理納唐亞胡在所有打電話給他要疫苗的國家元首中是最積極的,「打了30次電話給我」還保證以色列可以為疫苗使用後之校果報告做出保證。
At a press conference Thursday, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi assailed “those who are toying with the region and its peoples’ right to live in peace for the sake of electoral and populist concerns… destroying the trust which is the basis for ending the conflict.”
Safadi’s comments came the day after Jordan’s Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah abruptly canceled a planned visit to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem over a disagreement with Israeli authorities about his security detail.
Jordan retaliated by delaying approval for the prime minister’s flight path over the country to the United Arab Emirates for a planned visit Thursday. Netanyahu’s trip was eventually postponed to an unknown date.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi at a press conference in Berlin on March 10, 2021. (Kay Nietfeld / POOL / AFP)
“The crown prince wanted to make a religious visit to the Al-Aqsa mosque and pray there on the night of the Israa’ and the Mi’araj, as it is of great religious significance to all Muslims,” said Safadi. “We had reached arrangements for visits with the Israeli side. We were surprised when they sought to impose new arrangements and change the plan for the visit in a manner which would have distressed Jerusalemites during that night of worship. As such, the crown prince decided that he would not impose that upon Muslims or disturb the purity of that night.”
The foreign minister’s unusually harsh comments extended to the status of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest place in Judaism and site of the third holiest mosque in Islam. “Al-Aqsa mosque is entirely a place of worship for Muslims. Israel has no sovereignty upon it… nor do we accept any Israeli intervention in its affairs,” he said.
Jordan’s Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at the United Nations headquarters, September 21, 2017. (Frank Franklin II/AP)
Israel captured the Temple Mount and Jerusalem’s Old City in the 1967 Six Day War and extended its sovereignty over Jerusalem. However, it allowed the Jordanian Waqf to continue to maintain religious authority atop the mount, where Jews are allowed to visit, but not to pray. Jordan’s role as custodian was enshrined by the landmark Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement in 1994.
On the surface, this week’s diplomatic crisis seemed to have erupted out of nowhere.etition for Jerusalem
Adding to Jordan’s recent displeasure with Israel is concern over eroding influence on the Temple Mount. In 2019, Abdullah claimed he was under pressure to alter his country’s historic role as custodian of the Jerusalem holy sites. He vowed to keep protecting Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, calling it a “red line” for his country.
Middle East pundits have in the past suggested that Saudi Arabia is interested in taking over responsibility for the Temple Mount and the mosques within its compound. Saudi Arabia is already the custodian of the two holiest Muslim sites in Mecca and Medina, both within its territory.
In January 2018, then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog said Saudi Arabia could play a key role in Jerusalem, taking responsibility for administering Muslim holy sites in any peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
約旦王儲侯賽因·本·阿卜杜拉突然取消了原定計劃對耶路撒冷舊城聖殿山的訪問,原因是以色列與以色列當局不同意他的安全細節。
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約旦為報復而推遲了批准總理在該國飛往阿拉伯聯合酋長國的飛行路線以進行計劃中的周四訪問。內塔尼亞胡的旅行最終被推遲到一個未知的日期。
約旦外交部長艾曼·薩法迪(Ayman Safadi)將於2021年3月10日在柏林舉行的新聞發布會上。
薩法迪說:“皇太子想對阿克薩清真寺進行宗教訪問,並在伊斯拉阿和米亞拉伊之夜在那裡祈禱,因為這對所有穆斯林都具有重大的宗教意義。” “我們已經達成了與以色列方面進行訪問的安排。當他們尋求採取新的安排並以這種方式改變訪問計劃時,我們感到驚訝,這種方式在禮拜之夜會使耶路撒冷人感到苦惱。因此,王儲決定不將其強加給穆斯林或打擾當晚的純潔。”
外交部長的異常苛刻的言論擴大了耶路撒冷聖殿山的地位,耶路撒冷是猶太教最聖潔的地方,也是伊斯蘭教第三聖潔清真寺的所在地。“阿克薩清真寺完全是穆斯林的禮拜場所。以色列對它沒有主權……我們也不接受以色列對其事務的任何干預。因·本·阿卜杜拉(Hussein bin Abdullah)於2017年9月21日在聯合國總部在聯合國大會上講話。(Frank Franklin II / AP)
以色列在1967年的六日戰爭中佔領了聖殿山和耶路撒冷的舊城,並擴大了對耶路撒冷的主權。但是,它允許約旦人瓦格夫繼續在山頂上保持宗教權威,那裡是猶太人被允許探訪但不能祈禱的地方。1994年具有里程碑意義的以色列與約旦和平協議進一步體現了約旦作為保管人的作用。
從表面上看,本週的外交危機似乎無處不在。
特拉維夫國家安全研究所高級研究員,前駐約旦大使奧德·埃蘭(Oded Eran)說:“最近出現了積極的事態發展。” 伊蘭引用了上週在西岸和約旦之間的艾倫比過境點上薩法迪和外交部長加比·阿什肯納齊之間的會晤,這是該次穿越口岸的第三次會晤。
但近幾週來令人鼓舞的跡象無法掩蓋約旦官員對以色列領導人的看法。
特拉維夫大學莫西·達揚中心的中東專家約書亞·克拉斯納說:“約旦人對內塔尼亞胡並不特別滿意,而且很長一段時間以來對他都不滿意。”
約旦國王阿卜杜拉(Abdullah)在2019年表示,以色列與約旦之間的關係“處於歷史最低點一系列事件促使安曼撤回其駐以色列大使後”。
那年,約旦終止了特別安排,使以色列農民能夠輕鬆進入 約旦境內的土地。以色列因涉嫌恐怖主義行為逮捕了兩名約旦公民,這也引起了輕微的外交爭吵。
約旦和以色列有著牢固的安全關係,但政治關係也因以色列對巴勒斯坦人和聖殿山的政策而惡化即使以色列靠近其他遜尼派阿拉伯國家。
2017年,內塔尼亞胡(Netanyahu)在以色列安曼大使館一間公寓的刺傷中槍殺了兩名約旦人,槍擊了兩名約旦人後,向一名以色列保安員表示了英雄的歡迎。
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總理本傑明·內塔尼亞胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)於2017年7月25日會見了保安人員'Ziv',後者於7月23日在以色列駐安曼大使館大院刺傷兩名約旦人時被槍殺。(Haim Zach / GPO)
以色列向約旦受害者支付了約500萬美元的賠償,儘管未對後者進行審判 按照安曼的要求在以色列法院對這名。
約旦分析家,聖城政治研究中心負責人奧拉布·蘭塔維(Oraib Rantawi)說:“這是一次重大挑釁。”
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約旦人也感到沮喪,因為以色列與巴林和阿拉伯聯合酋長國簽署了被稱為《亞伯拉罕協議》的正常化協議。
在公開場合,安曼別無選擇,只能讚揚協議。它與阿聯酋和美國有著密切的聯繫,後者在前總統唐納德·特朗普的領導下促成了該交易,並試圖恢復與沙特阿拉伯的密切合作。
“但是他們很不高興,”克拉斯納解釋道。“部分不滿體現在他們一直在說,包括昨天的薩法迪在內,這些協議不應該以犧牲巴勒斯坦人為代價,而且解決巴勒斯坦問題的唯一途徑是兩國製解決方案。”
克拉斯納稱約旦對協議的不滿是“妻子對新情婦的不滿”。
沙烏地阿拉伯試圖控制耶路撒冷聖殿山的宗教監護權,約旦必須權力保衛,否則無法對先人交待,政權合法性甚至都會受到衝擊。
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