AMMAN — The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Expatriates on Monday strongly denounced far-right Israeli Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich's use of a map of Israel featuring part of the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories, the
Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
اضافة اعلان
The Religious Zionism leader was delivering
a speech at an event in Paris yesterday with a map of what he called Greater
Israel hanging in front of him, which appeared to define Israel’s borders as
being inside parts of Jordan and including the occupied West Bank and the Gaza
Strip.
This move represents “a reckless incitement
that is in violation of international norms and the Jordanian-Israeli peace
treaty”, said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sinan Al-Majali.
‘Racist, extremist’ statements against
PalestiniansThe ministry also condemned “racist and
extremist statements made by the Israeli minister against the brotherly
Palestinian people, their right to exist, and their historical right to an
independent and sovereign state on Palestinian national soil”, he said, warning
against the seriousness of such hard-line remarks.
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry “will take all necessary political and legal actions against such statements, which amount to a dangerous escalation that threatens the region's security and stability”.
The ministry called on the international
community to condemn the Israeli minister's inflammatory actions and statements,
which are in violation of human values and principles.
The Israeli government must take a clear
and open position toward such extremism, and such inflammatory and malicious
statements by a serving minister, Majali said.
Jordan’s stanceJordan’s Foreign Ministry “will take all
necessary political and legal actions against such statements, which amount to
a dangerous escalation that threatens the region's security and stability”.
These extremist statements and actions, the
ministry stressed, “will not undermine Jordan or undercut the rights of the
brotherly Palestinian people, but rather, will expose to the world the
historical injustice to which the Palestinian people are being subjected and
the dangerous extremism and racism of the Israeli minister”.
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