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Palestinians Stripped Of Citizenship
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Can you just imagine the global uproar that would ensue if the title of this post was referring to a new Israeli policy? It would be the top breaking news on every news wire.
Yet, this is exactly what’s happening in Jordan… and you don’t even hear anything about it at all. The Jerusalem Post reports that “Jordanian authorities have started revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians living in Jordan to avoid a situation in which they would be ‘resettled’ permanently in the kingdom.”
I’ve said many times that the Arab world treats the Palestinians like dogs and keeps them in refugee camps in perpetuity for the sole purpose of using them as pawn in villifying Israel and keeping the eternal spotlight on Israel’s supposed “human rights violations”, so as to distract the world from their human rights violations—and real human rights violations at that.
Well, in the case of the Jordanians latest policy, they don’t even try to hide that fact! The report states that “the Jordanians have justified the latest measure by arguing that it’s aimed at avoiding a situation in which the Palestinians would ever be prevented from returning to their original homes inside Israel.”
As an interesting secondary side note, the report states that:
that decision, said Jordan’s Interior Minister Nayef al-Kadi, was taken at the request of the PLO and the Arab world to consolidate the status of the PLO as the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
“Our goal is to prevent Israel from emptying the Palestinian territories of their original inhabitants,” the minister explained, confirming that the kingdom had begun revoking the citizenship of Palestinians.
“We should be thanked for taking this measure,” he said. “We are fulfilling our national duty because Israel wants to expel the Palestinians from their homeland.”
This has got to be one of the most amazing spins ever put on any controversial policy—and the Arab world has put quite a lot of spin on just about everything they do. But, come on, this has got to take the cake!
Despite al-Kadi’s contentions, the Palestinian Authority doesn’t seem to admit to this supposed collaboration:
A PA official in Ramallah expressed deep concern over Jordan’s latest move and said that it would only worsen the conditions of Palestinians living in the kingdom. The official said that PA President Mahmoud Abbas raised the issue with King Abdullah II on a number of occasions, but the Jordanians have refused to retract.