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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Jordan's Prime Minister recognizes the obvious: 'We need Israel'

Responding to protesters calling for cutting his country's ties with Israel, Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur stated the obvious: Jordan needs Israel.
According to Kol Yisrael radio, Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur explained that the peace treaty with Israel was important for Jordan’s national security. He further said, according to the report, that the two countries share interests including water issues, borders, the so-called “Palestinian refugees” and Jerusalem.
Nsur’s comments came after around 1,000 people demonstrated on Friday near the Israeli embassy in Amman to protest the killing of a Jordanian judge by Israeli soldiers.
AFP reported that the protesters demanded that the 1994 peace deal between the countries be annulled.
IDF soldiers shot and killed 38-year-old Raed Zeiter, a Palestinian-Jordanian, at the Allenby border crossing on Monday, after he attacked a soldier and tried to grab his weapon.
Incredibly, Prime Minister Netanyahu has apologized for Zeiter's death. 

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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:19 AM

1 Comments:

At 8:32 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

This is exactly the sort of statement Israel has been asking the 'Palestinians' to make for years: to say "peace with Israel is in our best interests" - in Arabic, and to their own people.
It would be nice if this sort of tone was coming out of Egypt, too.

PM Netanyahu ought to hold this statement up in order to clarify what we're really waiting for from the 'Palestinian' side before we can take risks for peace. Not some peace of paper stating, in English, that "Mahmoud Abbas hereby recognizes Israel as a Jewish State". (This is what most of the world thinks when they hear Israel's demand, which is why many people think it's a stupid gimmick - which it would be, if that's really what Israel was asking for). But rather, a Bar-Ilan style speech to his own people, in Arabic (and yes, I know the Bar-Ilan speech was given in English, but Netanyahu has said he's willing to accept a 'Palestinian' 'State' enough times in Hebrew without that), in which he says (at the very least) "we can't go on refusing the Jews rights in this land".

 

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