US President Barack Obama strolled among the ancient Jordanian ruins at Petra on Saturday, on the final leg of a four-day Middle East tour dominated by his embrace of the Zionist entity
US President Barack Obama strolled among the ancient Jordanian ruins at Petra on Saturday, on the final leg of a four-day Middle East tour dominated by his embrace of ‘Israel’, AFP said.
Obama flew by helicopter to view the rose-coloured stone ruins of the ancient Nabataean city, after winds from a sandstorm abated and allowed him to make the 55-minute trip across the plains and mountains of Jordan.
On Friday, high winds in the Zionist entity forced Obama to take his motorcade instead of his Marine One chopper to visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and there had been fears his jaunt to Petra would be scrapped.
The US president, on the first foreign journey of his second term, emerged into a sunlit square facing the iconic Treasury building at Petra, carved out of the towering walls of sandstone rocks in southern Jordan.
"This is pretty spectacular," Obama, in a blue windbreaker, sweater, khaki pants and sunglasses said, peering up at the rocky cliffs. "It's amazing. Spectacular."
The visit to Petra, Jordan's most visited tourist site, wrapped up a four-day stay in the Middle East designed to assure “Israel” he is serious about its defense from Iran and to keep Israeli-Palestinian so-called peace hopes alive.
Obama also warned on Friday that he was worried that Syria could become an enclave of extremism as his own policy towards the war threatening to tear the nation apart came under scrutiny. "(Extremists) are very good about exploiting situations that, you know, are no longer functioning. They fill that gap," Obama said at a news conference with King Abdullah II.