12-10-2006 13:00
Jordan's King Abdullah has warned feuding Palestinians to unite or risk ruining their hopes of statehood.
The monarch said the Arab country was on the brink of civil war and needed to join together to face a growing right-wing camp in Israel, during an interview at his royal palace in Amman yesterday (11.10.06).
Palestine is currently witnessing the worst internal fighting it has seen in a decade, as a result of a power struggle between terrorist organisation Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah fraction.
Abdullah told Reuters: "All of us have to work to reach out to our Palestinian brothers and get them to take a step back and see that this is not the time for infighting.
"A lot is at stake today and if we fail now, we risk pushing Palestinian aspirations so far behind that it will take a long time to bring us back to where we want to be, and in the process, risk the future of Palestine."
Abdullah added an Arab-Israel peace agreement, based on the two states of Israel and Palestine, may be soon be impossible to implement.
He said: "I really think that by the first half of 2007 we might wake up to reality and realise that the two-state solution is no longer attainable, and then what?"
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