A new rule that applies only to Israel: "Give free electricity" - by Elder of Ziyon

...But for some reason they aren't insisting that anyone in the world do anything to help Gazans except the one nation that Gaza has attacked with rockets thousands of times.

Elder of Ziyon..
27 June '17..






"Human rights" organizations have created a new rule that applies to Israel and Israel only:

Israel must provide free electricity to its enemies.

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Shine - King Abdullah fears the Arab Spring

Chaim Shine
Israel Hayom
13 September '11

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=481

King Abdullah II of Jordan, addressing recent developments in the region, claimed this week that Israel is worse off in the wake of the Arab Spring. "The futures of Jordan and Palestine are more certain and solid than that of Israel," Abdullah said, adding that Israelis are the ones who are frightened nowadays. I tried really hard to find these frightened Israelis on the street, but could not.

The Talmud says that every man reveals his heart's ruminations when he speaks, and indeed, King Abdullah is scared. He fears the possibility that the small emirate received by his great-grandfather King Abdullah I from the British, in recognition of his cooperation with them against the Turks during World War I, could disappear. A political flood is sweeping the Arab world toward absolute chaos, and no one knows where it will end.

Until 1948, the population of Jordan was composed of half a million Bedouin tribesmen, inhabiting vast swathes of desert. To this day, Bedouin tribesman constitute the anchor of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, serving in its army and security forces. The Bedouin's loyalty is the only thing guaranteeing the royal family's continued rule. But this is a conditional loyalty, similar to that of Saddam Hussein, Mubarak and Gadhafi loyalists.

After the War of Independence, in which the Jordanian army took an active role in the coordinated attack by the Arab states against Israel, the cease-fire lines were established. Those lines gave birth to the area known as the West Bank, which Israelis call Judea and Samaria, which Jordan controlled and annexed in 1950. Only two states officially recognized the annexation: the U.K. and Pakistan. Until the Six Day War, Palestinian residents of Judea and Samaria lived under Jordanian rule. They joined hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who crossed over into Jordan during the War of Independence, in the hopes of returning to Israel, from which they fled, following promises by their leaders that Israel would soon be destroyed.

An Interview with an Arab Dissident

Yoel Meltzer
American Thinker
13 March '11
H/T Danny Hershtal


http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/an_interview_with_an_arab_diss.html

Mudar Zahran is a Palestinian Jordanian who fled Jordan and currently resides in England. A former political insider, he is very critical of the Hashemite regime in Jordan, both vis-à-vis its treatment of its majority Palestinian population and in its belligerent attitude towards Israel. He is convinced that the Hashemites are an impediment to a resolution of the Palestinian issue and hence to regional security.

Zahran's English articles have been published by the Hudson Institute and the Jerusalem Post.

The following interview reveals a picture of Jordan unknown to most outsiders. Equally important, the ideas and suggestions of Zahran provide some hope for the future of the troubled region.

YM: To most outsiders Jordan is considered somewhat modern and pro-western. Is this assessment true?

MZ: Not at all, Jordan is a dictatorship whose rulers have always posed as modernizers while they are indeed dictators. Jordan is not a peace-loving regime either.

King Hussein engaged in all wars against Israel and only gave up when he knew he could not beat Israel at war. Today his son exhibits serious hostility against Israel and shows strong closeness towards Hamas. For some reason all this goes under the media radar screen....not sure why.

YM: When you say "dictatorship" do you mean like Iraq under Saddam Hussein or Syria during the time of Hafez al-Assad?

MZ: Yes, only with a much lower level of brutality. While those two used killing and imprisonment whenever they could, the Hashemites kill and imprison only when they need to. Meanwhile the king is a sole ruler. You can go to jail for three years for merely criticizing the state or the king and the parliament is a joke. One man rules, only this man speaks good English and appears on daily television shows.

YM: Is there freedom of expression in either the media or in the academic world?

MZ: Not at all. For example, according to Human Rights Watch (in Arabic) a Jordanian professor faced a court martial for asking her students to remove the king's photo from the classroom while Reporters Without Borders has labeled Jordan as a country without real freedom.

However it's more complex. For example most Bedouins can criticize anything as long as they do not directly bad-mouth the king while a Palestinian would think twice before asking a policeman for directions. So just like in Syria a small minority is ruling an oppressed majority. In this case the majority Palestinians do not have any form of freedom and would not even dare go to the police station to file a report if harassed or abused by a Jordanian.

YM: Is there a difference between the father, King Hussein, and his son, King Abdullah? Was the father more liberal and open than the son?

MZ: The father was way more tolerant than the son and he never bothered the Palestinian population. The son however is totally different. Unlike his father, he has developed a strong lobby in Washington D.C. which allows him to get away with a lot. He is very anti-Israel and constantly speaks against Israel in the government controlled media and he is playing with the basic rights of his Palestinian citizens.

YM: Is his anti-Israel behavior any different than other Arab rulers? Even in Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, there was/is much anti-Semitism. Thus for an Arab ruler to be anti-Israel or perhaps anti-Semitic does not seem so strange.

MZ: Anti-Semitism is the scapegoat for Arab dictators; everything that goes wrong in their countries is a "Zionist plot". Yet in the case of Jordan, the King has been de-naturalizing his Palestinian majority, taking away passports and citizenship from the Palestinians and ordering them to "go home to Palestine". The king's old guards, who hate Israel, claim this is a method to "turn the demographic bomb on Israel". At the same time Jordan uses this demographic threat as a way to request more aid money in the name of "hosting" the Palestinians. In other words Jordan thinks it can blackmail both Israel and the US by playing with the Palestinians who comprise the vast majority of the Jordanian population. This is unacceptable and this is political terrorism.

Also the King does a good job demonizing Israel. He called it a state like North Korea in the New York Times and he went to the UN, amid the Palestinian Israeli talks six months ago, and openly said that unless Israel stops settlements "there will be war". This of course puts the pressure on Abbas since if he caves in on the settlement demand he will look like a traitor. Jordan has a done a great deal in complicating the peace process and it has always played one card, the demographic card.

In Tel Aviv, Geert Wilders praises Israel and repeats that Jordan is Palestine

Daphne Anson
05 December '10

Controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders has given a speech in Tel Aviv today in which he affirms once again his solidarity with Israel and his conviction that Jordan is Palestine:

'Shalom chavarim. Let me start by saying that it is with great sadness that I share your grief over the deaths of more than 40 brave Israelis who lost their lives – many while trying to save others in the great fire near Haifa. My country, the Netherlands, is amongst other countries helping to put down this fire, which is threatening the lives and property of thousands of your compatriots. I offer my heartfelt condolences to the families of those who perished. My thoughts are with them.

Israel is an immense source of inspiration for me. When I came to your country for the first time as a teenager, I lived here for a year.

I am not ashamed to stand with Israel, but proud. I am grateful to Israel. I will always defend Israel. Your country is the cradle of Western civilisation. We call it the Judeo-Christian civilisation with good reason.

Israel is often being treated unfairly. The world looks at the plight of the Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza, and other places, and many blame Israel. The UN claims that there are over 4.7 million Palestinian refugees, and many blame Israel. These voices say the Palestinians should be allowed to return to "Palestine". But where is Palestine? Many say Israel must solve the problems of Palestine. But is Israel guilty of the plight of the Palestinian refugees?

My answer is "No". The Arab leaders are to be blamed – and Islam is to be blamed. Let me first tell you why, and then I will tell you where Palestine can be found.

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Jordan is Palestine

Melanie Phillips
The Spectator
21 June '10

The Dutch politician Geert Wilders has hit the bullseye:

‘Jordan is Palestine,’ said Wilders, who heads the third-largest party in Holland. ‘Changing its name to Palestine will end the conflict in the Middle East and provide the Palestinians with an alternate homeland...There has been an independent Palestinian state since 1946, and it is the kingdom of Jordan.’ Wilders also called on the Dutch government to refer to Jordan as Palestine and move its embassy to Jerusalem.

Wilders has spoken the big inconvenient truth. As a result, it is inevitably being dismissed as merely what ‘the right’ regularly says. So of course it's untrue, on the grounds that, by definition, everything ‘the right’ says is untrue. Yadda yadda.

But it is not untrue. It is correct. Anyone familiar with the history knows it is correct. Immediately after World War One, Palestine consisted of what is now Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The great powers dividing up the region decided that Britain should be given a mandate to administer Palestine and restore within it the historic Jewish national home. Within a couple of years, however, Winston Churchill, for reasons of realpolitik, gave away three quarters of Palestine to the Hashemite dynasty to found (Trans)Jordan (leaving all the rest to be settled by the Jews; but that’s another story).

So Jordan is indeed Palestine. As Camie Davis points out, the Arabs themselves repeatedly said so:

Jordanians, for decades, were avid proponents of the ‘Jordan is Palestine’ position. They used that position as justification for the annexation of the West Bank, arguing that Palestine was one single, indivisible unit, and that Jordan was the legitimate governing body of Palestine...

‘We are the government of Palestine, the army of Palestine and the refugees of Palestine.’ Prime Minister of Jordan, Hazza' al-Majali, 23 August 1959

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Bye-bye Jordan

The Muqata
15 January '10

Posted before Shabbat

The Muqata blog would like to say good-bye to all our readers in Jordan.

As you Jordanian readers know The Jordanian government has ruled that electronic communication like websites will be subject to the country's Press and Publications Law.

Presumably that means that websites such as ours that advocates that Jordan, with it's overwhelming Palestinian majority is a de facto Palestinian state under illegal Occupation by the Hashemite government, will not be taken too well by the authorities over there and will result in the Muqata blog being censored.

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