“Two blows to the pinnacle damage,” says an Egyptian proverb. However what if there are three?
The UAE has introduced, for instance, that Israel goes to promote 50 million cubic metres of water yearly to Jordan, on prime of the 55m cubic metres offered freed from cost, as defined by Israeli Power Minister, Karine Elharrar. In the meantime, Jordan’s Minister of Water and Irrigation, Muhammad Al-Najjar, stated {that a} declaration of intent signed with Israel and the UAE will allow the Hashemite Kingdom to acquire 200 million cubic metres of water yearly in trade for electrical energy. Critics are outraged that this electrical energy might be used in illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine.
How can the Jordanian minister declare that that is solely a “declaration of intent” when the UAE has already purchased 1,186 acres of land for the undertaking to be developed in Jordan? Who does he suppose he’s kidding?
In the meantime, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has been hosted by the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, who additionally occurs to have the position of protector of Jerusalem with accountability for Al-Aqsa Mosque as head of the Quds Committee fashioned by the then Organisation of the Islamic Convention in 1975. Gantz announced a deal to promote weapons to Morocco, together with defence techniques and plane. That is an unprecedented transfer by an Arab nation, and one which Algeria believes is a direct menace to its personal sovereignty.
The king’s place as head of the Quds Committee and the truth that he is named the “Commander of the Trustworthy” as a purported descendant of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, didn’t cease him from agreeing an arms cope with the Israeli enemy. Israel, allow us to remind King Mohammed VI, has usurped Palestine; killed and displaced its folks; plundered its wealth and bounties; and desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque within the seek for “Solomon’s Temple”. Additionally it is Judaising occupied Jerusalem and expelling its folks. None of that stopped the Moroccan king from signing such a cope with these answerable for such contempt for worldwide legislation.
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Certainly, none of this appears to have trigger the king any grief or ache in any way, and doesn’t imply as a lot as preserving his throne and increasing his kingdom by annexing Western Sahara as a part of his normalisation settlement with Israel. Everybody within the Center East and North Africa who needs to have energy, and each ruler hoping to protect his place, has to go to Tel Aviv and kneel earlier than the Zionists; needs to be obedient and dependable within the hope that Israel might be happy. To hell along with your thrones, I say. They’re stained with the blood of the martyrs. And to hell with these treacherous leaders.
The Jordanian water settlement and the Moroccan arms cope with Israel are a part of the so-called Abraham Accords. They differ in content material and aims from earlier peace agreements between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, often called the Camp David Accords of 1978, the Wadi Araba Settlement of 1994, and the Oslo Accords of 1994 respectively. The premise of those agreements was to finish the state of struggle between them and Israel.
Nonetheless, these “Abrahamic” agreements are associated to the “deal of the century” undertaking, engineered by Jared Kushner and funded by the UAE, the regional state tasked with normalising Arab international locations with Israel. They’re a sensible implementation of the plans introduced by Kushner, the one-time advisor to US President Donald Trump, on the Manama convention in June 2019, which was attended by Jordan, Israel and the Gulf states within the context of the “deal of the century”. All of it is a naive try to cowl up the specified political objective, which is to bind Jordan to the occupation state and its safety, to determine Israel as a strategic accomplice, and to tighten its management over Jordan politically, militarily and economically.
The US, Israel, and the UAE are dragging Jordan into an abyss by exploiting the present financial disaster affecting the Jordanians who’re affected by loopy value rises, starvation, unemployment, restricted freedoms and the arrest of journalists, college students and activists. Hundreds of Jordanians took half in big demonstrations in a number of cities after Friday prayers final week, condemning the water settlement and the deal of the century. The federal government in Amman responded by arresting dozens of individuals.
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These two blows got here from throughout the Arab world. The third got here from Britain, which has designated all of Hamas as a “terrorist” organisation and criminalised any reference to the resistance motion. As an alternative of providing an apology to the Palestinian folks for the disaster that an earlier British authorities brought on by issuing the notorious Balfour Declaration in 1917, which allowed the Zionists to occupy the land of Palestine, Britain dealt a brand new blow to Palestine and its folks. It’s a determination that confirms its continued help for the apartheid state and justification for Israel’s violations of human rights and worldwide legislation in opposition to the Palestinians. As an alternative of taking motion in opposition to the prison occupation state, Britain is penalising the victims of its crimes.
Blows proceed to rain down on the Arab world, from its personal folks and from its enemies. Typically the 2 are one and the identical. In the event that they weren’t, then I doubt if its enemies would have dared to deal one blow after the opposite.
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