Israel Matzav

'Palestinian' state doesn't want 'Palestinians' from Syria

The state that is approximately 70% 'Palestinian' says that it cannot possibly take 'Palestinians' fleeing violence in Syria. Furthermore, a retired Jordanian general suggests that Israel should not want Jordan to take more 'Palestinians.'

Israelis should think carefully about whether they want such a concentrated Palestinian power on their eastern border, General Mansour Abu Rashid, chairman of the Amman Center for Peace and Development, said in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Abu Rashid's comments at the Truman Institute came in response to a statement by Dr. Assaf David, who declared that there is an increasing Israeli movement to the political right which sees Jordan as an alternative homeland to the Palestinians. Dr. David has engaged in dialogue on several levels with the Jordanians.

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Abu Rashid, who enjoyed a 20-year friendship with Kimche, with whom he collaborated on various peace projects, said that 81,000 people have already crossed from Syria to Jordan, where they were being treated as visitors, not as refugees. Jordan already has to cope with 400,000 Palestinians who came from Kuwait, 700,000 Iraqis, Sudanese, and people who came from other parts of the region. It simply can not take in Palestinians from Syria.

I agree. We should not want so many 'Palestinians' on our eastern border. And if that's true if our eastern border is the Jordan River, how much more true it would be if - God forbid - we allowed the creation of a 'Palestinian state' on the west bank of the Jordan River.

The Arab countries that have the 'Palestinians' now ought to make them citizens and keep them - as would happen anyplace else in the world.

Labels: Jordan is Palestine, Palestinians, Syrian uprising

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:52 PM