“The region will continue to suffer until the world lifts the shadow of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the central issue in the Middle East.
“No architecture for regional security and development can stand over the burning ashes of this conflict,” the monarch said as he joined world leaders in taking the stage at the high-level portion of the 78th UN General Assembly’s opening session.
He spoke at a time when the Israeli government does not believe in the creation of a Palestinian state and many Israelis themselves have lost faith in it. Some members of the government consider a Palestinian state to be an existential threat to Israel.
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King Abdullah, however, joined the voices at the UN, who argued that a two-state resolution to the conflict at the pre-1967 lines, including east Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, remained the only viable option. READ MORE