Israel has repeatedly rejected a two-state solution. At the United Nations General Assembly last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was emphatic in his opposition.
“In fact, they effectively had a Palestinian state – in Gaza. What did they do with that state? Peace? Co-existence?”
“No, they attacked us time and time again, totally unprovoked, they fired rockets into our cities, they murdered our children, they turned Gaza into a terror base from which they committed the October 7 massacre,” he added, referring to the Hamas-led attacks two years ago that triggered this Gaza conflict.
However, it was at the same UN assembly that President Trump called King Abdullah and other regional leaders to a meeting to outline his peace plan.
“The message he gave all of us was that, ‘This has to stop. It has to stop now.’ And we said, ‘You know, Mr President, if anybody can do it, it’s you,'” King Abdullah said.
Referring to the violence of the last two years, including Israel’s war with Iran and the Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar last month, King Abdullah asked: “How close have we come to regional, if not a southern-northern divide conflict that would have encompassed the whole world?”