Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
Weekly Commentary
18 March '10
Why should Jordan's King Abdullah II get a free pass when he slams Israel with criticism that grossly misrepresents the situation in Jerusalem?
"Jerusalem is a red line and the world should not be silent about Israel's attempts to get rid of Jerusalem's Arabs residents, Muslims or Christians," the king told visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton this week, claiming that Israel seeks to "change Jerusalem's identity and threaten holy sites there."
King Abdullah knows damn well that this is baloney.
Israel isn't clearing out Arabs from Jerusalem. If anything, Arabs from the West Bank are trying to move into Jerusalem in the hopes that they will be able to remain in territory under Israeli control if and when a Palestinian state is formed.
Jordan knows that Israel doesn't threaten the holy sites of Islam or Christianity.
In point of fact, King Abdullah knows that crowd capacity of the Temple Mount for Moslem prayer was dramatically increased under Israeli rule with the huge expanded underground Marawani Mosque in Solomon's Stables.
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Jordan has no moral right to lecture to Israel about Jerusalem after the way it desecrated and destroyed Jewish shrines and cemeteries throughout the city and prevented Jews from praying at the Kotel for 19 years. It takes particular chutzpah for them to try imply Israel's rule over Jerusalem has been an affront to religious freedom and dignity. The Jewish people have an unbreakable bond with Jerusalem and even the little King can't change it - EVER!
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