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Jordanian PM says support for one-state solution possible if Israel annexes West Bank

Omar Razzaz told The Guardian that Jordan would view one state "positively," but he reiterated Amman's opposition to Israel's stalled plan to annex parts of the West Bank.

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Residential houses are pictured in the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank east of Jerusalem, on July 1, 2020. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said it could begin the process to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank as well as the strategic Jordan Valley. — MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

Jordan’s Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said the Hashemite Kingdom would view a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “positively” if Israel goes ahead with its annexation plans in the West Bank.

Speaking to the British news outlet The Guardian, Razzaz said that annexation would doom the two-state solution.

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