King Abdullah II tells authors and academics in Amman that Jordan cannot serve as substitute Palestinian homeland.
The King of Jordan told a group of intellectuals that Israel's position in the region has deteriorated in the wake of the recent wave of Arab uprisings and its prospects are now worse than those of the Palestinians.
Abdullah said, "the Palestinian' future is more secure than that of Israel" and that Israel's position is "more problematic than it has been in the past", according to Army Radio. King Abdullah made the comments at a meeting at the royal palace in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
Israel Radio reported that the Jordanian King explained to the group of authors and academics that he expressed these views on a recent visit to the United States in response to an Israeli intellectual, who told the King that he believed that the Arab Spring would serve Israeli interests, whereupon Abdallah answered that he felt that the opposite would be true.
King Abdallah also related to proposals advocated by some Israeli rightists that his country fulfill the national aspirations of the Palestinian people. Abdallah called this so-called 'Jordanian option' an unacceptable fantasy plan. He said that Jordan can never take the place of a substitute Palestinian homeland.
The king added that no American or European official has ever pressured him to support a solution to the Palestinian refugee problem that would come at the expense of the kingdom, according to Israel Radio.
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