Jordan’s King Abdullah II delivered harsh remarks against Israel at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, saying that Israel, with which the Hashemite Kingdom has had diplomatic relations since 1994, is attempting “to erase Palestinian life and impose a new territorial reality.”
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Jordan’s King Abdullah II addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday. Credit: AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY
Jordan’s King Abdullah II addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday. Credit: AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY
“For decades I’ve stood before this assembly and warned of the dangers of leaving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict unresolved, but the international community chose to manage the conflict, not confront it,” he said.
“If international law can be ignored for decades, then what exactly is that law worth? And how can we enforce it if we won’t even call out its violations? In Gaza, the evidence is overwhelming,” he added.
Abdullah added that the West Bank and Gaza are “are two fronts of the same Israeli strategy. In both, Palestinians are being killed. In both, the reality on the ground is being remade: Gaza through destruction, the West Bank through de facto annexation. The objective is the same: to make a viable Palestinian state impossible.”