Jordan’s Prime Minister Bisher al Khasawaneh has said that peace with Israel remains a strategic choice but any push to drive Palestinians to the kingdom would pose an “existentialist” threat, Reuters reports.

“In the event that there are actions and conditions that generate and create mass displacement of populations, that is a clear violation of the peace treaty,” Khasawneh said, referring to the country’s 1994 deal with Israel during a session in Davos.

“It poses an existentialist threat … that we will have to react to and we hope we will never arrive at that point or juncture because we are firmly committed to comprehensive peace.”

The only solution to avoid deeper conflict and regional instability was to put in place a political process with a time frame that leads to a two-state solution where a Palestinian state would emerge alongside Israel, Khasawneh said.