Jordan to Israel: Accept Palestine State

JORDAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah II has pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a two-state solution to help end Israel’s decades-long conflict with the Palestinians.

Abdulah II welcomed Netanyahu in the city of Aqaba in a Red Sea resort town bordering Israel, to talk on the peace process in the area and accept the Arab peace initiative.

The Israeli leader arrived earlier Thursday on an unannounced visit to Jordan, it was Netanyahu’s second trip abroad since taking office last month, just three days after he met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm Al-Sheikh, to discuss issues related to resuming the deteriorated relations among Palestine and Israel.

The king pressed the Israeli government to declare its commitment to the two-state solution, accept the Arab peace initiative and take practical steps to achieve progress. The Arab initiative calls for the countries of that community to recognize Israel and proceed to the normalization of ties, in exchange for the Israel accepting the creation of a Palestinian independent state and withdrawing from all Arab lands occupied in the 1967 war.

“The Middle East is going through a critical stage that requires swift action to end the conflict,” the king told Netanyahu. Amman, Prensa Latina