When three Israeli security guards were killed near the Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed that Israel was “surrounded by a murderous ideology led by Iran“.
In December, his government said Israel was fighting a war on seven fronts, all led by Iran.
If this is an acknowledgement that Netanyahu’s refusal to end the genocidal campaign in Gaza is making all of Israel’s borders insecure, then it is belated. However, Netanyahu was right to say there is hatred for Israel on the east side of the Jordan Valley.
As the popular celebrations that followed the killings showed, Jordanians have no need for Iran’s active incitement.
The Israeli military’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and the settlers’ terrorism against the Palestinians in the West Bank have sowed the seeds of hatred in a neighbour all by itself. Jordan, which has been quiet for 50 years on the Palestinian question, is quiet no more. ….more
