A potentially news breaking memoir in which King Abdullah engages
with the problem of solving the Israeli-Palestinian standoff,
explaining his view that we have one last chance for peace in the
region, but the window of opportunity is rapidly closing. King
Abdullah has staked the success of his reign on pushing through a
bold new plan for peace in the Middle East, and this book is his
platform for launching it to a wider world.
When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son
rather than his brother, the longtime Crown Prince, to be the next
King of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of
Special Forces who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval.
In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah tackles the
single toughest issue he faces head on-how to solve the
Israeli-Palestinian standoff-and reveals himself to be an
invaluable intermediary between America and the Arab world. He
writes about the impact of the Iraq war on his neighborhood and how
to confront the threat from Iran. This is the inspirational story
of a man who went to boarding school in America and military
academy in Britain, and grew up believing he would be a soldier.
Back home, he hunted down terrorists and modernized Jordan's
Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found himself king.
Together with his wife, Queen Rania, King Abdullah transformed what
it meant to be a monarch, going undercover to escape the bubble of
the court while she became the Muslim world's most passionate
advocate of women's rights. Why would a sitting head of state
choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King
Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth:
a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous,
the cost of failure unimaginable
Jordan has not escaped dissent but Abdullah has also shown a quicker understanding of what has been required in the short term... But the long term problems remain: a small state with a $20bn debt and a population where six decades of Palestinian refugee immigration has made the ruling Bedouin families who control the military almost a minority. The king, again, does not shrink from these problems and the need to tackle them... This first effort is well and colourfully written... I look forward to more books, hopefully outlining how he and his nation found a peaceful middle way out of this year of Arab unrest -- Alasdair Buchan Diplomat
Abdullah II. König von Jordanien, geboren 1962 in Amman als ältester Sohn König Husseins, wurde zunächst von der Thronfolge ausgenommen und erhielt eine Erziehung in den Vereinigten Staaten und England. Er absolvierte eine Militärkarriere und wurde 1999 kurz vor dem Tod seines Vaters von diesem zur Überraschung aller als Thronfolger benannt. Er ist seit 1993 mit der Palästinenserin Rania al-Yasin verheiratet und hat vier Kinder.
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