Former US Ambassador Thomas Pickering praises King Abdullah II's handling of his meeting with President Trump with control and determination.
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00:00You know King Abdullah of Jordan. You've known him from even the days when he was the Crown Prince of Jordan before he became king.
00:09I expect you were watching the developments at the White House on Tuesday evening.
00:14Have you ever seen him looking quite so uncomfortable?
00:18I don't know that it was the most pleasant experience that he could have undergone.
00:27But I thought that he handled it with control, with clear determination,
00:35and with a sense that he wanted to get through that particular episode, if I could call it that,
00:45without risking American support, which is very significant financially for Jordan on the one hand,
00:54or the reputation that he has developed in the Arab world of sticking with the general consensus of Arab views.
01:06And that meant not accepting to buy into the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza,
01:17which is a primary preoccupation of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli right wing,
01:25and happens to be contrary to international law, among other things.