By Ryan Jones
Sep 21, 2005
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has responded with outrage and farcical counterclaims to Jewish assertions of a historic and religious right to the city of Jerusalem.
Last week, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the United Nations General Assembly Jerusalem is the ?eternal undivided? capital of the nation of Israel, and a city the Jews have always held most dear.
On Monday Jordan's Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs blasted both Sharon and the UN over what it called ?a statement full of lies and falsehoods.?
?How could this world organization allow a war criminal to review lies based on false claims and biblical legends in Palestine,? the committee wondered in an official statement released to the press.
According to the experts who chair the committee, ?historic, demographic and religious facts? as well as ?archaeological discoveries? prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that ?the land of Palestine and Jerusalem have been inhabited by Arab Canaanites for over 5,000 years.?
Oddly enough, the Arabs also claim to be descendants of Abraham, who lived some 4,000 years ago, a full millennium too late to be the father of the ?Arab Canaanites? whom he interacted with during his sojourn in this land.
In fact, Israel today abounds with layers of archaeological sites attesting to the land's long and deep connection with the Jewish People.