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Jordan's King Abdullah said Sunday the problems in the Middle East go beyond the war in<br>Iraq and that much of the region soon could become engulfed in violence unless the central issues are addressed quickly.<br>ADVERTISEMENT<br><br>"We could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands," he said, citing conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon and the decades-long strife between the Palestinians and Israelis. <br><br>Abdullah said it is natural that Americans, with troops fighting in Iraq, view that war as the major problem in the Middle East.<br><br>"But, for the majority of us living in this part of the world, it has always been the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab problem. I fear that if we do not use the next couple of months to really be able to push the process forward, I don't believe that there will be anything to talk about."<br><br>Unless something is done soon to lower the tension, he said, the two-state solution of<br>Israel and an independent Palestinian state existing side by side becomes less a possibility.<br><br>"If we don't solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem then how can we ever solve the Israeli-Arab problem?" he said. "Do we resign this whole region to another decade or two of violence?"<!-- 15788 --><b on></b>
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