AMMAN — Former prime minister
Taher Al-Masri has warned of the danger of “Zionist expansion” into Jordan, asserting that
“Jordan is being targeted as a regime, people, and homeland through plans and
ambitions drawn on paper and led by the Israeli occupation and its supporters
in America, the West in general, with the help of the open support from some
brothers.”
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At a lecture organized by the
Jordanian Journalists Association on Saturday, titled “Where will we be in the future?”,
Masri said that Jordanian governments these days “do not feel the needs of the
people or the future. Their policies make us believe that they are clones of
each other, but with different faces and names”.
“The reality Jordanians live in today is
frightening, and so is the future,” he said.
He added that the Jewish nation-state
law is now a basic law of Israel, which basically says that Palestine belongs
to the Jews alone and that its residents must be Jews.
“This, in my understanding, means that
Israel refuses to give the
Palestinians their own state, or even local rule or
a confederation. Nothing is ours, and all of it is theirs,” he said.
Masri added that there is no longer the
slightest doubt about Israel’s intentions toward Jordan.
“So far, Israel has
achieved what it had planned, and today it occupies all of Palestine and had
declared Jerusalem as its capital. It now is working hard on building the
temple, which is a sign that biblical Israel is being completed. What is
happening these days in
Al-Aqsa Mosque is nothing but an announcement that this
is the site of the temple,” said Masri.
The former premier
also talked about the economic situation in Jordan, saying that successive economic
crises have raised the public debt and weakened all sectors of the economy,
adding that “we are quickly approaching a stage where we can be called a
bankrupt country”.
He added that all governments do is
supplement the state budget by imposing more taxes, which has led to a high
rate of unemployment, inflation, erosion of incomes, and a decrease in the
purchasing power of citizens.
He pointed out that “the majority of
Jordanians believe that the economic crisis that we are witnessing now is part
of a plan that targets Jordan.
“It is imperative for the government to
think about creating a new economic reality, with new ideas and plans, forgoing
relying on exorbitant taxes to secure the state budget and linking Jordan with
Israel for major strategic projects, like the gas and water agreements,” Masri
added.
On political reforms, he said that “more than 32 years on, we
have not succeeded in adopting the true democratic approach and behavior, and
we continue to remain in democratic transition.”
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