AMMAN — On Saturday, the Coalition
of Nationalist and Leftist Parties criticized the position of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, which condemned a shooting that took place in
occupied Jerusalem on Friday when a 21-year-old Palestinian resident of east
Jerusalem opened fire outside a synagogue, killing eight settlers, Jo24 reported.
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In a press statement, the coalition stated
that the ministry’s stance “contradicts Jordanian national interest and the
popular position rejecting all agreements and all forms of
normalization with the occupation.”
On Saturday, the ministry had issued a
statement stressing the need to take "urgent and effective" steps to
halt the "dangerous and condemnable" state of escalation, which has
claimed the lives of Palestinian and Israeli civilians and “threatens to evolve
into a cycle of violence, for which all will pay the price”, the Jordan News
Agency, Petra, reported.
“Jordan condemns the attack that targeted
civilians in a synagogue in East Jerusalem, as well as all acts of violence on
civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories,” the ministry’s official
spokesperson Sinan Majali had said in the ministry statement.
‘Denying the right to resist the
occupier’The coalition “strongly condemned” the
positions of all Arab countries that denounced the shooting, accusing them of “abandoning”
support for “the right of the Palestinian people to resist the continuous
bloody Zionist attacks on their cities, villages, camps, and even their
detainees in the occupation prisons”.
Meanwhile, MP Adnan Mashuqa also denounced
the stance of the Foreign Ministry, disowning the ministry’s statement and
stressing that the official position “does not represent (his views)”.
“From a legal point of view, any
condemnation of the Jerusalem operation means denying the rights endorsed by
divine laws and international covenants — the right to resist the occupier and
liberate the homelands,” Mashuqa said in a press statement to Jo24.
"This position is unacceptable and
cannot be issued by a body or a person who has a mind and knowledge of
international legislation and conventions," Mashuqa said.
The MP called on the countries that
condemned the Jerusalem shooting to apologize to the Palestinian people and to
take the initiative to support the Palestinian resistance to the occupation, in
implementation of the international covenants that they have ratified.
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