Jordan says Israel pushing Middle East to brink of regional war

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi attends a press conference in Amman

AMMAN (Reuters) - Israel is pushing the whole Middle East to the brink of regional conflict by maintaining a dangerous escalation on several fronts, Jordan's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

In remarks after an Islamic and Arab ministerial contact group meeting in Amman to lobby for a Gaza ceasefire, Ayman Safadi said peace would not prevail without a two-state solution. Safadi has kept the foreign ministry portfolio in a new Jordanian cabinet named on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Peter Graff)