What did King Abdullah II of Jordan say about Israel on Friday?”
Jordan’s King Abdullah: Israel must choose integration or isolation By Haaretz Service and Reuters ordan’s King Abdullah on Friday said that Israel must choose between integrating into the region or remaining isolated, and warned that delaying a two-state solution would be disastrous for Israelis and Palestinians. The Jewish state can “integrate into the region…or to remain fortress Israel, isolated, holding itself and the entire region hostage to continued confrontation,” Abdullah said during his visit to Washington. Abdullah urged American leaders to back a two-state solution as outlined in the Arab Peace Initiative, which offers Israel normalized ties with all Arab states in return for a full withdrawal from the lands it seized i Advertisement n the 1967 war, the creation of a Palestinian state and a “just solution” for Palestinian refugees. “U.S. commitment to Palestinian statehood must be unambiguous in deeds as well as words. This is central to America’s standing,” Abdullah sai
fortress” or “living in peace and security with its neighbors.” Interviewed on state television before his departure for the United States, the king said the United States was the country most capable of influencing Israel. “It is time that the (US) employ this influence to prove its transparency to the people of the region, and that it is not biased,” Abdullah said. Peace Process Last chance to revive peace process, King Abdullah says / Reuters Jordanian king says, ‘There have to be certain criteria that new PA government has to accept if we’re going to move process forward’; adds: This is our last opportunity Full Story The king, who has long urged America to make a greater effort on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, is likely to make the same point when he addresses the US Congress on Wednesday. The Middle East faces two choices – “Either the choice of peace or the choice of chaos, violence and destruction,” the king told Jordanian television, to which he rarely gives interview
