His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday said the international community was offering a “piecemeal way” to tackle Middle East crises instead of an overall strategy.

"I don't think there is an agenda out there. I think it's a piecemeal way of dealing with the situation, whether it's the Israeli-Palestinian one, whether it's Lebanon, or whether it's Iraq or the issue of Iran. I don't think there is an overall strategy," the King told Lyse Doucet of BBC World during an interview.

He said Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other Arab countries were trying to form a unified position on Lebanon.

"Because we're not seeing the international community dealing with the issues in the Middle East comprehensively," the King said.

"Each time we have a crisis, it gets far more unstable, and the endgame, or where we're going to be leading as the Middle East in the future, is very dim. I can't read the political map of the Middle East anymore, because I just see so many heavy clouds that are over our shoulders at this stage and I really feel and fear for the future of the Middle East."

Commenting on what US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described as a “new Middle East”, the King asked: "A new Middle East?”

“The way I'm looking at this new Middle East, I'm seeing what is happening in Somalia, I'm seeing what's happening in Gaza, I see what's happening in Lebanon, I'm seeing what's happening in Iraq. This is a new Middle East?"

The Jordan Times