We discussed briefly the recent “Jordan is Palestine” conference held in Jerusalem. My opinion has been that while I think the idea is quixotic in the extreme, I like the idea of these sorts of ideas getting publicity, if for no other reason that it puts pressure on Arabs.
An op-ed about the conference in Egypt’s El Beshayer doesn’t disappoint, as the writer Bassam Badarin tries to ridicule the conference but ends up revealing his own hate.
Badarin correctly points out that the two Arabs who spoke at the conference don’t really represent anybody. He claims (several times) that the conference was created by the Likud.
Some nice lines:
[The conference] reaffirms the certainty that Israel is not only occupying the West Bank, but is hindering the future of Jordanians and trying to create a deep crisis internally with superficial maneuvers that overturn the Wadi Araba agreement.
We have already said that the settlements in Hebron are not intended to control only the West Bank, which is already under control, but to subjugate Amman and Cairo and threaten Mecca.
And its expansionist ideology is a permanent indicator of hostile intentions not only against the two peoples, but also against humanity and the Arab nation…
But my favorite was at the end:
What is remarkable is that the Jordanian paries and trade unions are not able to exploit the issue and respond from the depth of Amman with similar conferences that scream against the enemy entity because only hatred of the entity today brings together the feelings of Jordanians and Palestinians together.
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