AMMAN —
Former minister of foreign affairs Marwan Muasher has said that there cannot be
talk about real peace with Israel in the absence of a solution to the
Palestinian issue.
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Speaking on the
occasion of the anniversary of the
Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty, signed on
October 26, 1994, Muasher told a Jordanian news outlet that Jordan had joined
the peace process in the hope that it would lead to the establishment of a
Palestinian state and end the occupation of a state that, according to him, has
been trying to impose solutions at Jordan’s expense.
Muasher said that
the arrival of the Israeli extreme right to power contributed to the decline of
the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.
Muasher stressed
that the Oslo Accords utterly failed to freeze the construction of illegal
settler housing units, adding that when the accords were signed, the number of
Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem stood at 250,000, but that
today it has almost tripled, to reach 700,000.
Settlements, he
said, complicate the two-state solution and make it impossible to be reached;
they are the main obstacle to the peace process.
Muasher stressed
that in light of the current events, it is not possible to talk about a “warm”
peace between Jordan and Israel, or between “the occupation state” and any Arab
country.
Regarding the
Abraham Accords, Muasher said that they had violated the most important formula
of the peace process, which is the exchange of land for peace.
On the future of the Jordan-Israel
Peace Treaty and the current develop-ments in the
West Bank, Muasher called for
“reversing the economic rapprochement with the occupying entity in the areas of
energy and water”, while activating Jordanian diplomacy in order to “expose”
Israeli practices, and supporting efforts in international arenas for the
Palestinians to remain on their land, to abort “Zionist designs”.
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