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President Rivlin: "Israel Is Proud to Be Jordan's Partner and to Stand at Jordan's Side"
(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) President Reuven Rivlin on May 26 addressed a reception hosted in Tel Aviv by Jordanian Ambassador Walid Obeidat to mark Jordan's Independence Day. The President began by speaking in Arabic, and extended his warm wishes "to all the citizens of Jordan, on the occasion of the 70th Independence Day of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. I wish Jordan prosperity. Friends, Jordan is a great and important state in our region." The President continued in English, "All over the Middle East, we face difficult challenges....The Hashemite Kingdom is facing all these challenges with honor, with dignity, and with great national and human solidarity." Ambassador Obeidat quoted King Abdullah who said that "Jordan was founded on the religious legitimacy of the Hashemites, who advocate Islam in a way that presents to the world the true image of this religion as a faith of tolerance, which rejects all forms of religious extremism and violence."