Peace with Jordan – stop panicking
The King of Jordan, not some squalid clerk, announced that Jordan will not extend a now existent leases renting dual parcels of land to Israel. One is a supposed Island of Peace in a northern Naharayim area and a other located in a southern Arava, nearby Tzofar, an rural mild encampment (moshav). Jordan was wholly within a rights to confirm not to replenish a leases insofar as a applicable clauses in a 1994 assent covenant with Israel are concerned, and a usually reason a aristocrat announced it himself was to give a stipulation a weight of a final preference not open to negotiation. Jordan’s unfamiliar apportion added, in his possess declaration, that if there are to be negotiations, they will be singular to determining on a approach those areas are to be returned to Jordanian jurisdiction.
Since a announcement of a King’s declaration, complete violence has overcome a Israeli media and a voices of both broadcasters and those they speak are laced with panic. “Jordan has cancelled a assent treaty!!” “Why is a aristocrat doing this to us?” “What will occur to a longest pacific limit Israel has? “ Politicians, on a other hand, are attempting to ease us down on a lines of: “The assent covenant with Jordan is a vital item of a initial sequence for Israel,” “ there is no hazard to destiny family with Jordan,” “Jordan depends on us for a security,” and other likewise insane remarks, a crux of that is that Israel would do anything to safety a assent agreement with Jordan.
Those media personalities and their interviewees do not comprehend that when they speak about a significance of a Israel-Jordan assent treaty, they are extenuation a Hashemite dominion a ability to vigour Israel on some-more essential issues, such as a Palestinian Arab state in Judea and Samaria, stability Jordan’s special standing in Jerusalem major Israel’s government in a Holy City and including Jordan as a partner to negotiations with a Palestinian Authority. In a unconstrained hunt for scoops and excitable headlines, a media have incited into articulate heads whose nonessential pronouncements omit a Middle Eastern inclination for lifting a cost of anything Israel considers important.
The King of Jordan announced a cancellation of a leasing due to inner pressures. Numerous Jordanians demanded that a leasing of Jordanian land to Israel contingency finish and a aristocrat acceded to those demands. In addition, a aristocrat has several “bones to pick” with Israel and a US, generally per Jerusalem, America’s approval of a city as Israel’s collateral and a relocation of a embassy. Trump took these stairs notwithstanding King Abdullah II’s requests to leave a Jerusalem emanate to negotiations between a PA and Israel, awaiting a city to be divided between Israel and a destiny Palestinian state. The aristocrat was angry when his ask was abandoned and looked for a approach to retaliate Israel.
Just recently, a aristocrat liberated Ahmad Daqamseh, the Jordanian infantryman who shot during and murdered 7 defenseless Israeli immature girls from Beit Shemesh in cold blood in 1997, wounding 6 others, this notwithstanding his life judgment for a counsel electrocute of trusting hikers. Ever given his release, a killer has turn a celebrity, is constantly portrayed as a favourite on Jordanian media where he calls on viewers and listeners to rivet in jihad opposite Israel. Is a aristocrat unknowingly of this? Of march he knows all about it, and one gets a sense that a aristocrat views murder as a legitimate form of vigour on Israel.
Official Israel contingency send a still message, by tip channels, to a Jordanian king, saying: “If we wish to fondle with a assent agreement your father sealed with us, remember that this silver has dual sides – since if we get a sense that we are behaving opposite a best interests, we, too, have a right to do a same to you. Israel is not in your pocket, and it competence be profitable to we to start to consider of ways to inspire us to say a attribute with you.” This competence be a time to remind a aristocrat that his cousin Zaid ben Raad, conduct of a UN Human Rights Committee, constantly comes out with anti-Israel decisions and “we have a upsetting guess that you, dear king, play a partial in a cabinet head’s anti-Israel obsession. We can't concede someone who acts opposite us to equivocate profitable a cost for doing so.”
Israel has a means to put poignant vigour on Jordan, given that a aristocrat and his environment are naturally many supportive to any speak of a Palestinian Arab infancy existent among Jordanian citizenry – and that majority’s rights to self-determination, so branch Jordan into a Palestinian state or dividing it into both a Palestinian and a Bedouin entity depending on internal ethnicities. Almost everybody staying to a north of Amman and adult to a Syrian limit and a bit east to Zarka, is a Palestinian Arab. What stays after that is mostly dried land populated with Bedouin, a ethnic-cultural minority that forms a bottom of a king’s power.
At this indicate it is critical to understand: The Peace Agreement sealed by Rabin and Hussein in 1994 was formed on a mutually-held opinion that a Palestinian State contingency be avoided during all costs, either in Judea and Samaria, or in Jordan, since such a state would poise a risk both to Israel and to Jordan. Unfortunately, from a unequivocally commencement of Abdullah’s regime in Feb 1999, he has damaged that agreement and turn a romantic believer of substantiating a Palestinian Arab state in Judea and Samaria, formulation to ban all a Palestinians in his dominion who wish an eccentric state to that region. As distant as a aristocrat is concerned, it will be no problem whatsoever if that segment turns into a apprehension state that poses a risk to Israel.
In fact, a aristocrat goes from nation to country, from personality to leader, attempting to convince them to force Israel to act opposite a possess existential interests and settle a Palestinian State in Judea and Samaria. His exquisite upper-class British accent creates him seem like a responsible, courteous and estimable leader, though his idea is a state on a hills of Judea and Samaria that will bluster Israel with lookouts on a plateau to a west as week as a sleet of fire, missiles and rockets on eighty percent of Israel’s population, from Dimona and Beer Sheva in a south, along a length of a Coastal Plain and adult to a northern cities of Afula and Beit Shean. Somehow, there are still Israelis who consider that King Abdullah II, benefaction ruler of Jordan, is a crony of Israel. With friends like that, we unequivocally have no need of enemies.
Has anyone in Israel found a tip approach to tell a aristocrat that he is behaving in a conform totally discordant to a suggestion of a assent agreement? Has anyone in Israel hinted to hm that he might have to compensate a high cost for this antagonistic opinion to Israel? Has someone mentioned a difficulty his cousin causes us during a UN Human Rights Committee – during a insistence of a king?
That is a correct approach to conduct family in a Middle East. We have to lift on still negotiations behind a scenes while radiating strength, making final and refraining from vouchsafing a media know what is critical to us and what is reduction crucial. Israel contingency tell a Jordanian aristocrat that it is recalculating a subsequent stairs with courtesy to family with Jordan due to his longterm antagonism. For Israel, a continued existence of a Hashemite stately residence – whose members were brought by a British to a segment from a Hijaz roughly a century ago – is usually one of several possibilities.
Written in Hebrew for Arutz Sheva, translated by Rochel Sylvetsky, Op-ed and Judaism editor.