Showing posts with label Jordan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jordan. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

King Abdullah of Jordan

On the BBC website has put his two-bobs worth in concerning the Israel/Palestine situation.

While Iraq was a source of concern, "the wellspring of regional division, the source of resentment and frustration... is the denial of justice and peace in Palestine".

"Sixty years of Palestinian dispossession, 40 years of occupation... have left a bitter legacy of disappointment and despair," he said.

A couple of points here

1. What about Jewish dispossession in Arab lands before 1948 and in the immediate years afterwards?

2. and what of Jordan's "occupation" of "Palestinian" Judea and Samaria (West Bank) between 1950 and the Israeli liberation in 1967? - how much talk was there of "Palestinian" self-determination then?