Jordan's King Abdullah tells UN Israel's 'expansionist appetite' threatens region
King Abdullah II warns the General Assembly that Israel is testing regional limits with calculated steps across Gaza, West Bank, and Syria.
What to know
- Jordan's King Abdullah II told the UN that Israel's government poses a regional threat through calculated expansionist actions in Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Syria.
- He criticized international resolutions as toothless, arguing that Israel operates as 'a state without restraint' with dangerous impunity.
- Abdullah warned that Israel's ambitions extend beyond Palestine, raising questions about the full scope of regional territorial concerns.
“No one in this assembly should assume [Israel's] ambitions stop at Palestine.”
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“This Israeli government's expansionist appetite is now a regional threat. Step by calculated step, Israel is testing how far it can go.”
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Jordanian King calls the Israeli government's "expansionist appetite" a regional threat: "Step by calculated step, Israel is testing how far it can go."
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Israel has been happily non-agressive against Syrian for years when Assad, a regime literally half propped up by the Hezbollah, was incharge of the country and all those weapons they now worry so much about. In what way is the new Syrian regime, which has yet to retaliate to Israeli aggression and instead bet everything on US mediated deplomacy…
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But before Israel attacked them Egypt declared a blockade against Israel. A blockade is a military action. Declaring a blockade against a country that you are not in an active conflict with is an aggressive action.
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And the King thinks it has escalated to the point where he needs to comment on it. But that isn't in any way him trying to placate two different sides. He isn't just saying this for domestic consumption.
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"This is just standard diplomacy about national interests." then that for Foregin Minister then
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The counter is that I do not think he is walking any kind of "tightrope." His comments aren't trying to placate two different sides at all. This is just standard diplomacy about national interests.
- Sep 22
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Jordan’s King Abdullah II: This Israeli government's appetite is now a regional threat. And today, Syria is the warning. The international community is choosing not to see repeated incursions, creeping territorial expansion, new facts and posts on the ground, including around