Abdullah II of Jordan it after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and lost in the 1967 Six-Day War. Its annexation of the West Bank was not recognized, and in 1988 the kingdom ceded its claim to the territory. An interview with Abdullah by Jeffrey Goldberg, published in "The Atlantic" in March 2013, sparked controversy when the king criticized local and international figures and parties. He called the Muslim Brotherhood a "Masonic cult" and "wolves in sheep's clothing", described ousted Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi as a man with "no depth" and said that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan saw democracy as "a bus ride". Abdullah
Zal Cleminson 2018 and is now a permanent member of the band and will perform with the band at all their live shows and future recordings. Cleminson is referenced in the novel "The Sacred Art of Stealing" by the Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre as the basis of the disguises worn by bank robbers during a heist, and inspired the name of the character Zal Innez. Guthrie Govan has cited Cleminson as one of his most important influences and considers him to have been "his Jimmy Page" in his early guitar development. Zal Cleminson Alistair Macdonald "Zal" Cleminson (born 4 May 1949, Glasgow,