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Peace is important for Israel.

Israel is proud to be Jordan's partner and to stand at Jordan's side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region.

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any wars.

Israel made peace with Egypt, the largest Arab State. There are militant Islamists there, but there is also law. There are agreements and also defense arrangements there.