Abbas and the Jordanian Passport Affair

Pesach Benson
Honest Reporting/Backspin
09 February '11

http://honestreporting.com/abbas-and-the-jordanian-passport-affair/

The problem: You’re a Jordanian official who likes to keep the kingdom’s Palestinians “in their place” till they can one day return to the western side of the Jordan River. You read the PaliLeaks, and you’re utterly convinced the PA and Fatah are going hopeless soft on the right of return. You don’t want to be stuck with an estimated two million refugees for the long haul.

The solution: Leak some info about PA leaders who hold Jordanian passports. Drop names like Mahmoud Abbas, Ahmed Qureia, Mohammed Dahlan and Nabil Abu Rudaineh — but don’t provide any context. How or when they obtained those passports is less important than the hornet’s nest you’re sure to stir up.

Jordan’s already revoked thousands of passports it issued to Palestinians, but it’s nothing you’re ashamed of.

After all, if Mahmoud Abbas is acting like Jordan is Palestine, what will the Israelis say? And where will that leave you?

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AP Multiplies Number of Palestinians Displaced to Jordan

Gilead Ini
CAMERA/Snapshots
13 December '10

How many of the roughly 600,000-700,000 Palestinians who fled their homes during the Arab-Israeli war found refuge in the Jordan?

If you guessed 1.8 million, you should re-read the question, a bit more closely this time.

Mathematical impossibility notwithstanding, the Associated Press insists that 1.8 million Palestinians displaced after 1948 live in Jordan, along with an unknown number of their descendants. As AP's Jamal Halaby put it in an article about clashes between Bedouin and Palestinian fans of rival soccer teams,

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Brotherly Love

FFTvideo
05 August '10

See how the Arab world treats their "brothers," the Palestinian Arabs...
The world focuses on Israel's "inhumane" treatment, while Arab nations hold them in horrid refugee camps, using them as political pawns. They were ethnically cleansed, they were massacred, all by Arabs. And the subjugation continues. But no one says a word.



Now THAT is "brotherly love."

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Jordan, Dr. Peace and Mr. Apartheid

The world must tell Jordan that peace and integration of its own Palestinians are not privileges it is giving away.


Mudar Zahran
Op-Ed/JPost
24 July '10

Last January, Faisal al-Fayez, a Jordanian senator and former prime minister, threatened Israel on national Jordanian television with “6 million Jordanian suicide bombers.” Fayez is considered one of the closest Jordanian officials to King Abdullah II; he is also a leader of the Bani Sakher tribe which has historically dominated the most important positions in the Hashemite kingdom.

Another member of the tribe, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Nayef al-Qadi, defended an official policy of stripping Jordanians of Palestinian heritage of their citizenship, a policy that has resulted in the denaturalization of more than 2,700 so far according to a recent report by Human Rights Watch. In an interview with a London-based Arab newspaper, Qadi said that “Jordan should be thanked for standing up against Israeli ambitions of unloading of the Palestinian land of its people” which he described as “the secret Israeli aim to impose a solution of Palestinian refugees at the expense of Jordan.”

Furthermore, King Abdullah, in a clear gesture of carelessness to Israel, has extended his condolences to the family and followers of Muhammad Hussein Fadallah, Hizbullah’s spiritual leader who passed away recently.

THE CAUSES of Jordan’s recent line of official hostility toward Israel are deep-rooted in the makeup of the Jordanian state itself. Jordan is a country with a Palestinian majority which allows them little or no involvement in any political or executive bodies or parliament.

This lack of political and legislative representation of Jordanians of Palestinian heritage has been enforced by decades of systematic exclusion in all aspects of life expanding into their disenfranchisement in education, employment, housing, state benefits and even business potential, all developing into an existing apartheid no different than that formerly adopted in South Africa, except for the official acknowledgement of it.

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J Street's Shadow State Department Pushes Obama Agenda

Parrhesia
J Street Jive
03 May '10

Having recently stripped thousands of Palestinian Arabs of their Jordanian citizenship, the Hashemite Kingdom warmly welcomed J Street to its pleasure palace last week. In a display of cognitive hypocrisy, routinely practiced by J Street and the Obama administration, King Abdullah (not even shadow of his father, the erstwhile friend to Israel, King Hussein) blurted out the boiler plate demands for Palestinian "rights" (not in Jordan, of course) and statehood. Joining in the chorus, J Street officials, no doubt blessed by their leader, Obama, somehow neglected to point out the mistreatment of Palestinians east of the Jordan.

Abuse of Palestinian Arabs has not been the sole activity of Jordanians, however. Some of the Great Expellers have included Kuwait (1991 - 400,000 along with hundreds of murdered Palestinians) and Libya (1998 - over a thousand were left to languish in refugee camps along the Egyptian border).

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