Please accept my appreciation, and peace be upon you. (Applause.)HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH: (As translated.) In the name ofGod most merciful, most compassionate, President Obama, peace be upon you.(In English.) For decades, a Palestinian-Israeli settlement has eluded us.
The greatest challenge facing the contemporary Muslim world is to bring our limited, human understanding of Islamic law into harmony with its divine spirit -- in order to reflect God's mercy and compassion, and to bring the blessings ofpeace, justice and tolerance to a suffering world.