‘No stability in region without emergence of Palestinian state,’ King Abdullah
A two-state solution was the only option, the monarch told
‘No stability in the region without the emergence of the Palestinian state,’ said King Abdullah!
Jordan’s King Abdullah on Wednesday told deputies in a speech at the opening of a new parliamentary session that no peace was possible in the Middle East without the emergence of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
The latest violence — which broke out when Hamas militants assaulted Israel at the weekend — showed the region would not enjoy stability, security, or peace without a sovereign Palestinian state on land that Israel had captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, he said.
A two-state solution was the only option, the monarch told deputies.
“Our region will never be secure nor stable without achieving just and comprehensive peace on the basis of the two-state solution,” King Abdullah added.
According to the officials, King Abdullah has since the start of the latest conflict been engaged in a flurry of diplomatic efforts with Western and regional leaders urging swift action to de-escalate the situation.
“A Palestinian independent and sovereign state should be on June 4th, 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and so that the cycles of killing, whose ultimate victims are innocent civilians, end,” King Abdullah said.
Jordan’s large population is made up of Palestinians, and Jordan shares a border with the West Bank.
For those unserved, Amman lost the West Bank including East Jerusalem to Israel during the 1967 war.
Meanwhile, Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel stands widely unpopular among many citizens who see normalization as a sellout of the rights of their Palestinian brethren.
