AMMAN — Jordanian activists called for the
boycott of the “Jordan Eco Park” on grounds its encouraged environmental
cooperation between Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli youth, AmmanNet reported.
اضافة اعلان
The joint call by Jordanian parties, environmental
and youth movements, trade union committees, local initiatives, cultural and
women’s associations, student blocs at
Jordanian universities, and civil
society institutions came in a press conference.
The gathering said its “Jordan Eco Park” boycott
appeal is meant as a call to “return Jordan Eco Park to our national domain”.
In the news conference, in which representatives of
five Jordanian political parties spoke as well as the “Jordan Junction”
movement, a statement was issued, calling for boycotting Jordan Eco Park,
previously known as Sharhabil bin Hassneh Ecological Park.
According to the findings of more than 45 national
monitoring bodies, the park’s sponsors seek to integrate Jordanian and
Palestinian youth into joint environmental programs and workshops, along with
“Zionist” groups, a reference to Israel.
Currently, the park is run by an organization
registered in Jordan as a local institution under the name “Society for the
Protection of the Earth and the Environment”, which is previously known as
Earth’s Friends.
Speakers claimed that it is the same “Zionist
association” of “EcoPeace Middle East”, who website shows that it has offices
in Amman, as well as the West Bank city of Ramallah, and Israel.
“EcoPease Middle East allows the
Zionist entity to
be a partner in water diplomacy, ignoring its continued theft of natural
resources in Palestine, Jordan, and the Arab region,” the statement said.
It stressed that supporting this project is an
extension of the peace-building measures, this one through environmental
cooperation between Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and the “Zionist”
occupation.
“It serves the colonial Zionist expansionist
project, and acknowledges them (Israelis) as a legitimate body,” it said.
“It also legitimizes their (Israelis’) presence
before the world, obliterating their criminal truth, and portraying them as a
civilized and environmentally conscious neighbors, while they continue to
oppress our Palestinian people, occupy our Arab lands, and steal and control
our natural resources,” it added.
The participants insisted that such programs “did not, and
will not” protect the environment in Jordan, but will trap Jordanian and Arab
youth into normalizing ties with the “occupying” entity, and use them as tools
to “enforce the agenda it (Israel) seeks against our country”.
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