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| Jordan’s King Abdullah warns of fresh Palestinian intifada, warns new Netanyahu govt not to cross red lines |
| 2022-12-29 |
| [IsraelTimes] Jordanian King Abdullah II warns that there could be a new Paleostinian intifada, or uprising. "We have to be concerned about the next intifada," Abdullah tells CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... in an excerpt from an interview with the channel. "And if that happens that’s a complete breakdown of law and order and one that neither the Israelis nor Paleostinians will benefit from," he says. The clip did not provide the context for the assessment, which comes after a year of spiraling violence in the West Bank and a day before the swearing-in of a hardline Israeli government. The current excitements in Israel and the West Bank are being fairly well contained, it seems to me. But of course the Kingdom of Jordan needs to be concerned that their own non-Bedouin Arabs will be less easy for the Jordanian authorities to control. King Abdullah warns incoming Israeli government not to cross Jordan’s ‘red lines’ The king doesn’t often go in front of the camera, so when he does he spouts the usual line of posturing nonsense. [IsraelTimes] Jordan’s King Abdullah II warns the incoming Israeli government not to cross Jordan’s red lines with regard to Jerusalem’s holy sites.In an interview with CNN, Abdullah is asked if he believes that the status quo in Jerusalem and Jordan’s role was threatened. There is particular sensitivity around Israel’s ties with neighbor Jordan, which is a custodian of the Temple Mount, setting up a potential clash with hardline lawmakers from Netanyahu’s coalition like Otzmah Yehudit chair Itamar Ben Gvir who has pushed for Israel to assert its sovereignty over the Jerusalem holy site and allow Jewish worship at the site. “You always have those people that will try and push that and that is a concern,” says Abdullah without mentioning names. “If people want to get into a conflict with us, we are quite prepared. I always like to believe that let’s look at the glass half full, but we have set red lines and if people want to push those red lines then we will deal with that,” he says. Abdullah notes that “there are a lot of people in Israel concerned as much as we are.” Mostly Netanyahu-haters, reporters and other bien pensants, and various flavours of socialists — the latter an ever shrinking group. Under their 1994 peace treaty, Israel recognizes Jordan as the custodian of the Temple Mount, which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Temple Mount is the holiest place in Judaism and the site of the third holiest shrine in Islam.Israel captured the Temple Mount and Jerusalem’s Old City from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. However, it allowed the Jordanian Waqf to continue to maintain religious authority atop the mount. Small changes at the site or to that arrangement are liable to spark protests which could snowball beyond Jordan or the Palestinians to the wider Muslim world. Ben Gvir and others in the Religious Zionism-Otzma Yehudit alliance have long pushed for changes to the status quo, under which only Muslims are allowed to worship within the compound while Jews may visit Judaism’s holiest site, but not pray there. |
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