Obama To End Mid East Tour With Petra Visit

Barack Obama is closing his four-day trip to the Middle East with a trek around the ancient Jordanian city of Petra.

The US President is expected to fly to Petra by helicopter from Jordan's capital Amman.

A sudden sandstorm in the region threatened some of his travel plans on Friday, leading him to state the trip to Petra was "weather permitting".

The 24-hour visit to Jordan is Mr Obama's final stop in his Middle East visit - the first foreign trip of his second term as president.

Mr Obama arrived in Jordan on Friday for talks with King Abdullah II. The talks focused on the Syrian war and the influx of refugees into the country.

More than 400,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Jordan to escape two years of bloodshed at home, crowding refugee camps and overwhelming aid agencies run by the US ally.

A young tourist takes a photo in the ancient city of Petra in 2012

The bulk of Mr Obama's time during his Middle East tour has been spent in Israel, where he sought to reassure an anxious public he is fully committed to their security.

He also made a brief stop in the West Bank city of Ramallah for meetings with Palestinian leaders.

In Israel, Mr Obama paid respects to the nation's heroes and to victims of the Holocaust. He also solemnly reaffirmed the Jewish state's right to exist.

After touring the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, he declared it illustrates the depravity to which man can sink but also serves as a reminder of the "righteous among the nations who refused to be bystanders".

Mr Obama was criticised in Israel for a speech in Cairo in 2009 in which he gave only the example of the Holocaust as reason for justifying Israel's existence.

In clear response to the criticism, whilst at Yad Vashem, he said: "Here on your ancient land, let it be said for all the world to hear. The state of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust, but with the survival of a strong Jewish state of Israel, such a holocaust will never happen again."

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