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Jordan’s king: Israel ‘solid enemy’ of the Palestinians’


By Stan Goodenough
July 01, 2007

Jordanian King Abdallah II slammed Israel in an interview published Sunday, calling the Jewish state a “solid enemy” of the Palestinian Arabs and warning that Israel would not know peace unless and until “Palestinian political rights [sic] are addressed.”

According to a report in the Associated Press, the Hashemite (who rules over a “kingdom” created by the British out of two-thirds of the promised Jewish homeland) delivered his “harsh words” to the country Jordan has a peace treaty with in the Arabic newspaper el-Ghad.

Abdallah was reportedly angry after being asked whether Jordan, whose population is artound 75 percent made Palestinian Arab, would be interested in forming some kind of federation with a Palestinian state created on the “West Bank” – the biblical heartland of the Jewish people.

Such suggestions were “a conspiracy against both Jordan and Palestine,” he said.

Some opponents of the land-for-peace process suggest that Jordan is already a Palestinian state, and that the Palestinian Arabs should establish their state there.

Others don't want to see a Palestinian state (which has never existed anywhere in history) created at all.

Not only does Jordan consist of two-thirds of the land promised the Jews by the Balfour Declaration and the subsequent San Remo Conference; vast swathes of the east bank of the Jordan River are biblically part of the Promised Land.

Hashemites like Abdallah, on the other hand, have their roots in the Saudi peninsula, and have no historical claims to Jordan or any other part of “Palestine” at all.

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