AMMAN — All members
of the Lower House on Monday unanimously signed a memorandum calling for severing
diplomatic ties with Israel. Furthermore, a number of the MPs signed another
memo to send a delegation from the
Lower House to visit
Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
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During the six-hour
session, 103 lawmakers took turns to condemn Israeli actions and support the
“Palestinian struggle against injustice and apartheid”.
MP Saleh Al-Armouti, during his speech,
wondered why at a time when the “Israeli enemy
reneged on all agreements with Jordan, the government remains keen on
maintaining the embassy of the Zionist enemy in Amman. Our priority now
is to expel the Israeli ambassador and to revoke the agreements between Jordan
and Israel.” Referring to the 1994 peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, he
said: “We have a one-sided peaceful relationship with Israel”.
“Why hasn’t Jordan built
relations with Hamas? Hamas’s power is an extension of Jordan’s power”, he
added.
During the session, Armouti called on Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khsawneh to exercise his mandate, to
take a firm and strong stand against the Israeli occupation and to support
Hamas as a backup power for Jordan.
Head of the
Palestine Parliamentary Committee, Muhammad Al-Dahrawi, said that everyone has
the same position in regard of what is happening in Palestine. Dahrawi stressed the necessity of
responding to the unanimous position of the deputies to expel the Israeli
ambassador from Jordan. He also called for a “review of all agreements with Israel.”
Representative Safaa Al-Momani
said that Jordan needs all Arabs to support its efforts, accusing the
international community of “picking favorites with Israel.”
MP Khair Abu Saileek said that
the ongoing events in Palestine are the most important since the events of the
year 1948 and 1967, adding that the Jordanian diplomacy has “grown weaker
nowadays.”
Lawmaker Ahmed Sarahneh stated
that Jordanians are unified regarding what is happening in Palestine.
“On all levels, we have the same
position forward the Palestinian cause. Those who had gone to the borders are
our sons and they acted spontaneously”, in reference to two Jordanian men
arrested in Israel after crossing the border “with knives”.
The lawmaker added that “those
who work in the security services are Jordanian and definitely have the same
opinion and position.”
House Speaker Abdel Monem Al-Oudat
said that the presidency of the Lower House and the Palestine Parliamentary
Committee had coordinated with their Palestinian counterparts a communication
campaign set to include Arab and Islamic parliaments, in addition to several
other international parliamentary groups in order to draw attention to the “danger
of these developments to the lives and future of the Palestinian people and to
the security and stability of the entire region.”
Oudat added that these efforts have seen
important steps taken toward highlighting the crimes that are committed by the “Zionist
entity”, and to focus on the legal and moral responsibility of the
international community to end the Israeli practices in the occupied lands.
Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi
said at the session that Israel will not get have unless Palestine does,
stressing that Israel's practices are immoral and that the occupation state is
directly responsible for everything that has happened.
Safadi stressed that Jordan is constantly and closely following the developments in
Palestine, adding that the Jordanian position is “constant and unalterable”. He
said that Jordan’s stand, which was communicated to the Security Council during
its Sunday meeting, is that "what is happening in the Sheikh Jarrah
neighborhood is a war crime," in reference to an Israeli decision
to forcibly evict Palestinians from their homes in the East Jerusalem
neighborhood.
For his part, Khasawneh said in his
remarks that Jordan has all legal and diplomatic options to support the Palestinians. Added that the
Kingdom “will remain the defender of the rights of the Palestinian people,
including their right to establish a Palestinian state within the pre-67 lines,
with East Jerusalem as its capital.
“We are all on the same boat … We
are a nation that supports all Palestinians and we do not support a faction
over another … We are a government working to solidify Jordan in order to be
able to support Palestine … once we receive the memo to expel the Israeli
Ambassador we will confer it
along with the Lower House,” said the premier.
At the beginning of the session, Oudat
stressed the importance of Jerusalem and Palestine for Jordan, adding that the
House is following the "barbaric" attacks by the occupation forces on
Palestinians.
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