Jordan condemns statements by far-right Israeli minister

AMMAN — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Monday strongly denounced far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's use of a map of Israel featuring part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.اضافة اعلان

The Religious Zionism leader was delivering a speech at an event in Paris yesterday with a map of what he called Greater Israel hanging in front of him, which appeared to define Israel’s borders as being inside parts of Jordan and including the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

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This move represents “a reckless incitement that is in violation of international norms and the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty”, said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sinan Al-Majali.

‘Racist, extremist’ statements against PalestiniansThe ministry also condemned “racist and extremist statements made by the Israeli minister against the brotherly Palestinian people, their right to exist, and their historical right to an independent and sovereign state on Palestinian national soil”, he said, warning against the seriousness of such hard-line remarks.

Jordan’s Foreign Ministry “will take all necessary political and legal actions against such statements, which amount to a dangerous escalation that threatens the region's security and stability”.

The ministry called on the international community to condemn the Israeli minister's inflammatory actions and statements, which are in violation of human values and principles.

The Israeli government must take a clear and open position toward such extremism, and such inflammatory and malicious statements by a serving minister, Majali said.

Jordan’s stanceJordan’s Foreign Ministry “will take all necessary political and legal actions against such statements, which amount to a dangerous escalation that threatens the region's security and stability”.

These extremist statements and actions, the ministry stressed, “will not undermine Jordan or undercut the rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, but rather, will expose to the world the historical injustice to which the Palestinian people are being subjected and the dangerous extremism and racism of the Israeli minister”.


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