Ayman Safadi, the foreign minister of Jordan, blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a recent press conference held on the fringes of the UN General Assembly. He asserted that Arab and Muslim nations will ensure Israel's security provided Jerusalem consents to permit the creation of a Palestinian state along pre-1967 borders.

At a press conference on Friday, shortly after Netanyahu concluded his address to the UN General Assembly, Safadi stated, "The Israeli prime minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to destroy it."

“We’re here — members of the Muslim-Arab committee, mandated by 57 Arab and Muslim countries — and I can tell you very unequivocally, all of us are willing to guarantee the security of Israel in the context of Israel ending the occupation and allowing for the emergence of a Palestinian state,” Safadi argued. Netanyahu “is creating that danger because he simply does not want the two-state solution. If he does not want the two-state solution, can you ask Israeli officials what is their end-game — other than just wars and wars and wars?”

Safadi further continued saying, “All of us in the Arab world here, want a peace in which Israel lives in peace and security, accepted, normalised with all Arab countries in the context of ending the occupation, withdrawing from Arab territory, allowing for the emergence of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967 lies with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

“The amount of damage that this Israeli government has done — 30 years of efforts to convince people that peace is possible, this Israeli government killed it. The amount of dehumanisation, hatred, bitterness, will take generations to navigate through,” the Jordanian foreign minister states. “We have no partner for peace in Israel, there is a partner for peace in the Arab world, and that’s why the international community needs to move.”