DAVOS, Switzerland — Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Thursday that the US now faces the challenge of getting Israel to make a significant concession in exchange for its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in order to get the peace process back on track.

“The challenge that the Americans have with the Israelis is that if this [Jerusalem recognition] is to make any sense, it’s to give something pretty good to the Palestinians,” he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria during an open interview session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Abdullah gave the response after upon being asked whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu truly believed in a two-state solution. He “had his skepticism,” he said, but would reserve judgment until after US President Donald Trump presented his peace plan.

Trump had hinted that the move would require something big in return from Israel, saying in a cryptic tweet that “Israel, for that, would have had to pay more.”

Regardless, the Jordanian king said, “I have a feeling that the two-state solution the way that we envision it is not the same two-state solution that they do.”

Since Trump’s December 6 declaration that he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and would start the process of moving the US embassy there from Tel Aviv, the Palestinians have said that the US administration is no longer an honest peace broker.

They declared Vice President Mike Pence persona non grata and refused to meet with him during his visit to the region earlier this week.

While the king insisted Thursday that he had “tremendous sympathy to what the Palestinians are feeling,” he urged them to wait for the Americans to publicize their plan, and insisted that “we all know that we cannot have a peace process or peace solution without the role of the United States.”

He called for confidence-building moves between the American and Palestinian leadership that would bring them, along with the Israelis, back to the table.

Abdullah argued that the Palestinians were still very interested in talks, saying they have not abandoned other options. “They’re reaching out to the Europeans and to me, that is the signal that they do want peace,” he said, referring to Palestinian frustration as merely “a hiccup.”

Pressed on whether it was realistic to assume that the Trump plan would be fair for both sides, the Jordanian king admitted he was concerned but still said that there was no “plan B” if the Palestinians chose to walk away from what they might see as an unfair deal.

Dismissing the viability of a one-state solution, Abdullah said, “As we look at the Arab-Israeli demographics, as we look at the Palestinians under occupation we’re basically discussing and have been for a while what basically is an apartheid system.

“Now can we deal with this apartheid system and make it fair for everybody?” he asked rhetorically.