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| Israel Summons Jordan Envoy Over Anti-Israel Article |
| 2014-05-02 |
| [Ynet] Former Jordanian FM Abu Jaber lashes out at 'the Zionist big lie about Paleostine - a land without a people,' in article quoting Hitler. Israel summoned Jordan's ambassador Thursday to protest an "anti-Israeli" article by a former Jordanian foreign minister, in which he based his argument on a Hitler quote, the foreign ministry said. Spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel's embassy in Amman also sent the Foreign Ministry there an official protest over an article published on Monday by Kamel Abu Jaber in The Jordan Times. In the second paragraph of the article titled "The big Zionist lie and the task ahead," Abu Jaber, foreign minister from 1991 to 1993, uses a quote from Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... 's "Mein Kampf" to make a point about lying - in "the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility". "The Zionist big lie about Paleostine - 'a land without a people' - that the entire Western world adopted, and the biblical, Talmudic myth of the 'chosen people' have been the most important factors behind all the tragedies and atrocities that Paleostine and the Paleostinians have been subjected to since ... l897," Abu Jaber wrote. "We Arabs, Jordanians and Paleostinians especially, are victims of a torrent of lies by a few international media magnates that every day enter every room of every household, propagating not only sex and violence but also, above all, the Zionist ideas of the extreme right," he wrote. Palmor said Foreign Ministry deputy director general Aviva Raz called in ambassador Walid Obeidat to protest about the piece, "which was in essence anti-Israeli, but basing it on 'Mein Kampf' is definitely a red line, which brought an anti-Semitic spirit to some of the remarks." In the letter to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, Israel says of Abu Jaber that "constructing his arguments on Hitler's racist and anti-Semitic philosophy is outrageous and offensive not only for Jews, but also for any human being who believes in the basic values of humanity." Publishing Abu Jaber's piece on Monday, the day Israel remembered the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, was "not by coincidence," the protest letter read, calling for "firm actions against the writer and the newspaper." Tensions between Israel and Jordan, which signed a peace treaty in 1994, have risen following a series of festivities between Paleostinians and Israeli security at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Under the treaty, Jordan is the custodian of Moslem holy sites in Jerusalem. IDF soldiers in March killed a Jordanian judge at a border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, with the army saying it was investigating the circumstances. |
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