King Hussein of Jordan conveniently left out from his speech to the UN the October 7, 2023, Hamas and company mass murder, sexual abuse, kidnappings and other atrocities committed against defenseless Israelis of all ages that started the Gaza war.
He conveniently left out how Hamas built multi-billion dollar tunnels to protect themselves, and not a single bomb shelter for Gazan children and civilians above ground.
Even if Israel returned to the indefensible 1967 borders, it would not normalize relations with those that want Israel destroyed. It would only make Israeli civilians far more vulnerable.
Hamas and their many allies want Israel destroyed and the Jews of Israel murdered or enslaved.
The king knows all of this, but in order to pander to the anti-Israel mobs, he makes it seem this is about Israel operating in a vacuum.
If Gandhi were the ruler of Israel, nothing would change. The enemies of Israel want dead Jews and the people of Israel refuse to give in.
When Jordan illegally possessed the west bank and East Jerusalem, not once did Jordan consider a Palestinian state. When Jordan and other Arab states lost in yet another war to destroy the small Jewish state, the west bank and East Jerusalem went into the hands of the Jews, the original indigenous people. If the majority population of Israel were not Jews, a long hated, scapegoated and demonized people, the long-standing war, terror and effort to destroy Israel would not exist.
As long as Arabs now called Palestinian continue to murder and try to murder Jews, whether in Gaza or the so-called west bank, there will be nothing but checkpoints, restrictions and self-inflicted misery.
Meanwhile, most Jordanians are Palestinian Arabs. As long as the king does not become a Jew, no one will seek the destruction of Jordan, and no one will ask for a Palestinian state on the land of Jordan. Most of the land mass of what was British controlled Palestine is Jordan, not Israel. Jordan continues to have custodianship over many holy sites in Jerusalem, a status quo Israel does not seek to change.
Palestine is the name given to the region by the European Romans after they destroyed the Jewish nation and renamed the land Palestine to erase any Jewish connection to their historic land.
The only way to end the war and conflict with Israel is to end the goal of destroying the Jewish nation and Jewish people. Hamas and their many allies have made it clear that they will settle for nothing less than the complete destruction of Israel. Ignoring this reality helps no one, including Palestinians.