Does Israel want to be part of the neighborhood or does it want to be fortress? The decisions that we've seen over the past year or so are not encouraging Jordan' King Abdullah said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. If the United States vetoes the Palestinian statehood bid it will increase the negative view towards them and will also cause Israel to become more isolated he said. While discussions with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have been positive and encouraging the facts on the ground have shown otherwise, the king said. King Abdullah accused Israel of sticking its head in the sand pretending there is no problem. In May this year in an interview on ABC, King Abdullah warned the lack of a peace process between Israel and the Palestinians could lead to war. "Well if you look to the past ten years, every two, two and a half years, there is either the intifada or a war or conflict. So looking back over the past 12 years my experience shows me if we ignore the Israeli Palestinian issue something will burst."
