Conspicuously, notable figures on the Israeli right – among them Former Defense and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, who is also a political mentor of Netanyahu, and Knesset Speaker Rubi Rivlin – mirror the Jordanians’s position. Whereas the latter champion the concept of one political space that would include the two banks of the Jordan River, the Israelis respond with their own concept of one political space between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.