[Iran Press TV Latest] Jordan has summoned the Israeli ambassador over the regime's new threat to force out tens of thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.
Israel ambassador Dani Nevo was summoned to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday and given a "strongly-worded protest" over a military order that classes Palestinians living in the West Bank without the proper document as "infiltrators," the official Petra news agency reported.
| "You can't expel them to Jordon. Jordon doesn't want them back." |
The decree stipulates the expulsion of over 70,000 Palestinians, mostly Gazans, from the West Bank.
| If they're mostly Gazans who wandered over to the other side, they'd be sent either to Gaza or Egypt. So Jordon isn't really at risk. This is posturing, one of the Arabs' favourite activities. |
"The note underlined Jordan's strong denunciation of the Israeli decision ... and the need to immediately stop its application, as well as the reaffirmation of the right of the Palestinian people to live in and move about freely on their national territory," Petra said.
| Unless it's Black September in Jordan, in which case the Palestinians have the choice of exile or death. Because that's the other side of Muslim brotherly love. |
The message called the order "null and void because it runs counter to Israel's commitments under international law as an occupation power."
Amman also urged the international community to act to "halt such unilateral measures," which would block peace efforts and raise tensions in the Middle East. |