AMMAN —
Jordan-Israel relationship could be threatened by Israel’s constant violations
and provocations in Jerusalem and at the Muslim holy sites, and by its policy
of assassination, the latest of being journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, say
political analysts.
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That was also the conclusions reached by pundits
attending a discussion held by the
Politics and Society Institute, a Jordanian
think tank, last week.
The institute held a brain-storming session with a
group of researchers and political experts about the implications on the
Jordanian-Israeli ties of recent events in the occupied
Palestinian territories.
The session concluded that Israel’s acts are
tantamount to political bullying, and that should make it incumbent on Jordan
to carefully scrutinize the Israeli policies and the US role in the region in
an attempt to follow policies in a manner that serves and protects Jordanian
national and security interests.
Former foreign minister and Jordan’s first
ambassador to Israel Marwan Muasher, who participated in the discussions, said
that it is clear that Israel today is acting against Jordanian interests.
Israel’s almost daily breaches of
Al-Aqsa Mosque demonstrate its disregard for
the Jordan-Israeli peace treaty, said Muasher.
“Israel’s refusal to withdraw from
Palestinian lands
and to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state indicates that Israel is
attempting to resolve the conflict without taking Jordan’s interests into
consideration,” Muasher said.
“We must oppose Israeli attempts because they pose
an existential threat to Jordan, and we must engage with international forums
to expose this Israeli threat and preserve Jordanian interests,” he added.
While emphasizing that Jordan is capable of dealing
with this threat, he also underlined the danger of abandoning the two-state
solution to Arab and international allies, particularly the US.
“Jordan is not
weak and should not cave in to such pressures,” he said.
Political analyst
Hamada Faraneh told
Jordan News he believes that Jordan is in danger because the Israeli right-wing is
attempting to export the Palestinian problem, as it did in 1948, to Lebanon,
Syria, and Jordan, by expelling Palestinians from their lands.
Faraneh said that Israel considers Jordan to be the
alternative homeland of Palestinians because of political, historical, and demographic
realities.
Israel, Faraneh said, has no leverage over Jordan,
and the Kingdom can adopt a firm policy vis-à-vis Israel, just as it did when
it rejected the Trump peace plan and Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex parts
of the Jordan Valley.
Political analyst
Amer Al-Sabaileh does not believe
that Israel poses a serious threat to Jordan.
He said that the
notion of a security or existential threat to Jordan is exaggerated, because,
despite the Kingdom’s geographical proximity to Israel, the existence of a
peace treaty and security cooperation between the two countries means that
there are always ways to defuse tensions.
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