Benjamin Netanyahu to Jordan’s King Abdullah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Thursday and extended his condolences to him and the Jordanian people following Islamic State’s grisly murder of captive Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kaseasbeh.
Netanyahu said that all civilized people were “shocked by this barbaric cruelty, which the world must fight.”
Thursday’s phone call marks the first time the two have spoken since they met in Amman in November, together with US Secretary of State John Kerry, at the height of tension surrounding the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.