King Abdullah II: The Lebanon that we knew is dead

Jordan's King Abdullah II asserted that the situation in the situation in the Middle East would continually deteriorate unless Israel and the Arab states could reach a peace agreement. "The Lebanon that we knew is dead now," the king told the BBC, "The challenge for us is do we have a chance to build a new page for Lebanon, a good one, or is it going to go into a destructive mode and suck the rest of us in."