Israeli commentators have varied views and attitudes toward their country’s
relations with Jordan. What informs them, among others, are: Jordan’s value to
Israel’s security, long-term relations, and how much leverage should the
Israelis have over Jordan.
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Since the recent
Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem, especially during Ramadan, these
commentators shifted gear and began a concerted attack of Jordan. Most of them
accused Jordan of inciting hate for Israeli security elements who attacked
unarmed Palestinians, while expressing anger over the desecration of the holy
Muslim and Christian sites in Jerusalem.
There is a
language of hate and propaganda in their toxic articles. They unearth stories
about old secret meetings and agreements between the leaders of the two
countries. This is a cheap attempt to try to incite Jordanians against their
leaders. Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh got more than his fair share of
targeting, because he expressed support for the protesters and stone-throwers
who bravely defied Israeli soldiers attacking innocent children.
Just because Israel cannot control its growing religiosity and xenophobia, Jordan does not believe that it should abandon its principles and tenets to suit others’ interests or to justify the unjustifiable.
Jordan has fair
international political relations with the rest of the world, including with
Israel. We have been respectful of interfaith relations, pushing toward greater
inter-religious understanding, and we are truly faithful to the cause of a
permanent peace that guarantees respect of the rights of all people in historic
Palestine.
Jordan abhors
those who believe that “might is right”, hunt children, cut down olive trees,
demolish peoples’ houses, and confiscate their lands under laws which were
concocted to serve the occupier, namely Israel. Jordan adopts morals and
ethical references and measures others’ morality by them.
Just because
Israel cannot control its growing religiosity and xenophobia, Jordan does not
believe that it should abandon its principles and tenets to suit others’
interests or to justify the unjustifiable.
Jordan does not
care what Israel takes it for, or what role it thinks Jordan should play in its
scheme of things; the Kingdom has great confidence in itself and does not like
to be taken for granted.
Silly attempts to
draw a line in the water between Jordanians and Palestinian Jordanians comes
close to a fool’s gold. We are all Jordanian at the end of the day.
Jordanians are
peace lovers and their dignity comes before their economic well-being. This is
what we are. We shall never stop working for the rights of Palestinians, we
shall never condone child killing, and we will never stop referring to Israel
as an apartheid state as long as it acts the way it does.
We are loyal to
our Hashemite Kings, and we will continue our reform until we become the state
we want to be.
The coincidence of
Passover, Easter, and Eid Al- Fitr should have been an opportunity to cement
peaceful relations and coexistence. Yet Israeli settlers and ideologues
insisted on using it to display disparaging attitudes and myopia.
The writer is an economist, and has held several ministerial posts, including former deputy prime minister and former chief of the Royal Court.
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