Should Jordan's King Get A Free Pass When He Slams Israel?
Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
Weekly Commentary
18 March '10
Why should Jordan's King Abdullah II get a free pass when he slams Israel with criticism that grossly misrepresents the situation in Jerusalem?
"Jerusalem is a red line and the world should not be silent about Israel's attempts to get rid of Jerusalem's Arabs residents, Muslims or Christians," the king told visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton this week, claiming that Israel seeks to "change Jerusalem's identity and threaten holy sites there."
King Abdullah knows damn well that this is baloney.
Israel isn't clearing out Arabs from Jerusalem. If anything, Arabs from the West Bank are trying to move into Jerusalem in the hopes that they will be able to remain in territory under Israeli control if and when a Palestinian state is formed.
Jordan knows that Israel doesn't threaten the holy sites of Islam or Christianity.
In point of fact, King Abdullah knows that crowd capacity of the Temple Mount for Moslem prayer was dramatically increased under Israeli rule with the huge expanded underground Marawani Mosque in Solomon's Stables.
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Love of the Land: Should Jordan's King Get A Free Pass When He Slams Israel?
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