What is to be made certain here is that Jordan’s king is not our friend, in fact he and his regime are a part of the problem.
The recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decision to deny Jews any connection to the Temple Mount was no coincidence. The ill-considered decision came about under the full and continuous support, and at the initiation of, the king of Jordan.
This is no longer a secret. The UNESCO move came barely three weeks after the king spoke at the UN promising doom to Israel because he alleges Israel is unfair to the Palestinians.
This well-calculated and very sophisticated harassment from Jordan’s king, however, was not a mere reaction to anything Israel has done – in fact, as an academic and close observer of Arab affairs, I have seen it as Jordan’s policy for years.
For example, with regard to the current and vicious wave of knife attacks that was launched from the Temple Mount, an official Israel statement was published by Arutz Sheva that confirmed Jordan’s government was an instigator by both actions and verbal incitement, and let’s not forget that the Temple Mount is run fully by the Jordanian king’s own office.
Further, recently Israel expelled Jordan’s state news agency’s reporter, Modar S. al-Momani, for Jerusalem for being a security risk. It turns out the man was not only a reporter but also a senior Jordanian Wakf official – he even bragged about it after he was expelled. Official documents proving this have been posted on Facebook.
What is to be made certain here is that Jordan’s king is not our friend, in fact he and his regime are a part of the problem. And let’s not forget the non-Palestinian Jordanian official who attacked the guards in front of the Temple Mount just three weeks ago, the so-called “tourist” from Jordan.
At the same time let’s not forget why Jordan’s king is doing all of this: he is weak, having lost much of his power, and wants to direct Jordanians to hate and fight Israel instead of toppling him.
Either way, we must realize he is fragile and could fall, and we must seek our own security and interest by making sure the next regime in Jordan is our friend. We cannot keep fantasizing about a good king next door, and to those who keep indulging in such fantasy: wake up, the king next door is shamelessly anti-Israel.
He also supports the Islamists for his own interest, like him selling British weapons to Islamic State, as confirmed by The New York Times and The Daily Mail. Why cannot we see the facts? The king is a threat to Israeli national interests and security and we cannot keep fooling ourselves.
The author is a Researcher and expert on Middle East affairs.
Jordan has very little choice but play both sides until the Islamofascists are once for all eliminate from this planet (like the Nazi).
ArnoldHarris Said:
you alone ?? or do you need assistance.???
Fuck the rest of the world. They all seem to have this or that mostly anti-Jewish scheme for the mount of the 2nd Temple of the Jewish nation in Jerusalem. All their schemes are anti-Jewish, and almost none of them ever have been in Jerusalem. Which means their opinions are not worth the toilet paper they are wrapped in.
My wife and I not only lived in Jerusalem in 1973-1974 for our year of graduate studies, but my wife Stefi, a trained and experienced archaeologist, knows more about the history of that place from having dug up research materials in the proximity of the Temple mount. As for me, I was studying city and regional planning, whose curriculum was part of the Department of Geography at the university. My interests were – and remain — Judaization of the lands liberated from the Arabs in the Six Day War, which was fought just six years before we arrived there.
What to do:
1) Cancel whatever agreement was made with the Trans-Jordanian waqf after that war. If any of them reside west of the Jordan River, expel them across one of the bridges if they protest too loudly.
2) Assume total control over the Temple mount and the building which the Arabs constructed over the top of Mount Moria.
3) Give the local Arabs a rock-hard choice about that building, which in any case was constructed using materials from the Temple which had been destroyed by the Roman Army 600 years before the advent of Islam. The choice would be that Jews would hereafter be able to use the building on a shared basis with the Moslems. Or, if they refuse that, then permanently bar anyone but Jews from access to that building as well as the Temple mount.
The time is long overdue for the State of Israel and the Jewish nation to begin assuming total control over everything that involves Eretz-Yisrael. Because without the exercize of true and independent control over the world’s only Jewish state, then everyting about these concepts are rendered totally meaningless.
One more note about “His Highness” the King of Trans-Jordan. He more closely remembers a typical English Alfie than any kind of Arab I ever have encountered. I should know, because my mother, the late Amelia Jacobson Harris, was born and raised in Barrow-in-Furness, home of some of the greatest British naval and commercial shipbuilding in that island kingdom’s long and occasionally glorious history. And if and when Alfie is booted off his throne, guess where he probably will end up.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
Although it would probably horrify the rest of the world, and cause even more hatred of Israel than already exists, I wish Israel would just throw the Waqf out, demolish the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque and build a magnificent Third Temple there.