Uh, that's really nothing new: Israel's status in the international community as a Jewish state was present even in the 1948 partition plan, UN General Assembly Resolution 181.
"Jordan Islamists blast Bush's remarks on Jewish Israel," from Deutsche Presse Agentur:
Amman - The Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's biggest political party, on Saturday urged the government to reject unequivocally US President George W Bush's remarks referring to Israel as a Jewish state. "We are awaiting a clear Jordanian official attitude that rejects Israel as a Jewish state and sticks to the Palestinian people's right to an independent and a fully sovereign state as well as to the right of refugees" to return to their homes, the IAF official spokesman Rhayyel Gharaibeh said in a statement.
During his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories earlier this week, Bush advocated Israel as homeland for the Jewish people, a remark seemingly excluding the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes they were forced to quit upon Israel's foundation in 1948.
This is simply untrue. Not only has Israel always been a Jewish state, but the partition plan created an Arab "Palestinian" territory as well, which the Arab bloc rejected, lost all of in successive military defeats, and now wants back, we're told, in exchange for peace. Maybe. Kind of.
The UN General Assembly resolution 194 provided for the return of Palestinians to their homes or compensating those who choose not to return.
"Bush's hostile statement represents one of the stages of the liquidation of the Palestinian question, the offshoots of which will affect the rights of the Palestinian and Jordanian peoples as well as neighbouring Arab countries," Gharaibeh said.
"The recognition of the Jewish nature of Israel heralds a new aggression as well as a new chapter of the conspiracy against Arab rights," he added.
A curious slip-up (resulting in a moment of accurate reporting):
Jordan lost the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War. The Amman government concluded a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, but the Hashemite Kingdom continues to be a home for about 1.5 [million] Palestinian refugees who enjoy full Jordanian nationality.
You mean Israel is Jewish?
Just for those tuning in, the Islamic Action Front is the Jordanian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Yes, the "moderate" Muslim Brotherhood that we are constantly lectured about.
Accurate reporting? Perhaps, unless one counts the typos: "the Hashemite Kingdom continues to be a home for about 1.5 Palestinian refugees who enjoy full Jordanian nationality." I presume they meant 1.5 zillion, or something along those lines.
"The 'Palestinian People' and How They Grew." A title not quite as cheerful as the version with the "Five Little Peppers," and one whose contents require a much greater suspension of disbelief, save in Arab Muslim lands, where it is so useful, at this point, for the Lesser Jihad (Department of Propaganda).
Marisol,
Spot on with your additional comments. Although quite condensed from the real historical narrative of the 6-Day War, you give readers here an incentive to research the full story.
The spokesman says: "The recognition of the Jewish nature of Israel heralds a new aggression as well as a new chapter of the conspiracy against Arab rights."
When I thought that the stupidity of those people could not descend to a negative level, a statement like his just proves, again, that "stupid is as stupid does".
To add to your reading list, a brief synopsis of the 6-Day War:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=2E485AF9-8838-4115-919B-D71C52AB5B99
For a more in-depth summary, I recommend this document:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/media/pdf/BigLies.pdf
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To give some credit, George W. Bush at least acknowledged Israel as a "Jewish" state.
I am thinking that some aide slipped GWB a briefing document that did not include crayons.
From Marisols' revealing comments:
"a remark seemingly excluding the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes they were forced to quit upon Israel's foundation in 1948."
"Jordan lost the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War."
This is key to understanding why the "right of return" claim of the Arabs is false.
It's akin to the USA allowing Mexico to annex some of our southern states because some whimpering losers demand it...ridiculous.
When a country is attacked, it has the right to secure its borders from invasion, and territory captured during this excercise may be retained.
Winners keepers, losers weepers...but the ME Arabs and Persians will never accept it...they will continue to attack Israel forever.
Maybe when the latest "peace effort" fails once again, and the attacks on Israel escalate once again, more people will recognize that only by decisively subduing the hostile Arabs can a temporary regional stability result.
There rightfully exists a Jewish state of Israel, it's not going away, get over it already.
"...Palestinian refugees who enjoy full Jordanian nationality." Unlike those in Jordan?
Jordan formally renounced its claim to the "West Bank" as part of the Peace Treaty. Remember that Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1949 after the First AI War, and granted Jordanian citizenship to all Arabs living there. From 1949 to 1967 and American could easily visit East Jerusalem by getting a Jordanian visa and entering via Amman. So the "Palestinian refugees who enjoy full Jordanian nationality" are refugees in the same sense that a naturalized American citizen is. Do you really buy that?
From article: "Bush's hostile statement represents one of the stages of the liquidation of the Palestinian question, the offshoots of which will affect the rights of the Palestinian and Jordanian peoples as well as neighbouring Arab countries," Gharaibeh said.
Hostile??? Can this man be 'hostile'? Judge for yourself. I don't see any hostility, do you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHSiqQpg7Uc
spinoneone,
Aren't the Palestinian "refugees" those who fled Israel itself (not the West Bank or Gaza)? How many people living in those "camps" were driven out of the West Bank?
As for Jordan, this statement means the US shouldn't consider the Jordanian government to be an ally and Israel should consider its "peace treaty" with Jordan as no more than a truce that Jordanians will violate at a moment of their choosing.
"no more than a truce that Jordanians will violate at a moment of their choosing.
Posted by: PMK"
....a Muslim truce is like worthless family heirlooms...worthless....
Just asking. But what if Gaza reverted back to Egypt, and West Bank reverted back to Jordan?
Let those nations deal with the 'never to love Israel' crowds of Arabs, with all the accomanying social dysfunctions of the 'Palestinians' threats to internal security. Israel is off the hook on trying to create a separate 'Palestinian' state, and the problem gets dumped back in the laps of those Arab states so concerned for their fellow Pali-Arabs. Only drawback is now if rockets or suiciders attack Israel, the whole of Egypt and Jordan would have to answer, and pay.
Just asking... Why bother with a two-state-solution when all they want is 'death to Israel'?
Does any one remember how the Israelis saved Jordans arse
American and Israeli aid
The Jordanian king asked for American support to prevent the Syrian-backed attack which could ultimately result in a victory of the Palestinians and an end to his pro-western government. In order to protect their vital Arab ally, the American government requested Israeli help. Israel Air Force planes made low overflights over the PLA tanks as a sign of warning. Soon the PLA began to withdraw.
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/search/label/Jordan
"Just asking. But what if Gaza reverted back to Egypt, and West Bank reverted back to Jordan?" Posted by: Battle_of_Tours
That would be great but Jordan and Egypt don't want the "Palestinians".
I wonder if there ever has been a bigger fraud perpetrated on humanity than 'Palestinian' 'nationalism.' News flash: there never was a 'nation' of 'Palestine.' The people there can't even pronounce 'palestine,' they say it either 'filistine' (as in the biblical Philistines) or 'Balestine.'
Probably an old news flash to JW readers, but, just in case...
They are just cannon fodder, in the great Arab Muslim scheme to wipe Israel off the map. They are the ablative surface, where the rubber meets the road. As such, they are expendable, and their suffering is not important or tragic, except for the purpose of scoring political points.
"Just asking. But what if Gaza reverted back to Egypt, and West Bank reverted back to Jordan?" Posted by: Battle_of_Tours
Jordan and Egypt may not want "the Palestinians" but they are on record as having had them already. They had no problem annexing those territories in 1948. They should be forced to keep them. It's not up to Israel to provide the means for a single Palestinian state.
The only alternative is a three state solution: East Palestine, Israel and West Palestine.
"The only alternative is a three state solution: East Palestine, Israel and West Palestine." - PMK
Works for me. Not different from West Pakistan and East Pakistan, though they later had a falling out and East became Bangladesh. Let the Gazans fall out with Jordanian 'West Bank' and... oh yeah, they already did! Three state solution is perhaps the best answer here, though they still ALL will hate Israel regardless. This 'hate' stuff... seems to be a Muslim thing.
This is amazingly rich in mental malfunction.
The problem is "recognition of the Jewish nature of Israel".
You see, if you don't recognize a reality it goes away. The problem is consciousness.
Like all tyrannical philosophies the point is to force the human mind -- which is impossible of course. To force one's will on reality by wishing.
Then, "recognition ... heralds a new aggression".
Somehow this joker is victimized by other people's consciousness!
Then finally "the conspiracy against Arab rights".
Of course, conspiracy again! The constant paranoia. The hidden evil powers out in that scary incomprehensible outer world.
Well of course someone who thinks they can wish reality away is going to have trouble understanding how the world really works!
So it appears from that confused point of view that there are hidden, magical powers at work. Plots and conspiracies.
And "Arab rights". Now exactly what rights might those be?
How can one help but conclude from the foregoing that he means some "right" to lord it over the Jews -- to force them to live by mohammedan rules under mohammedan rulers.
Mind you, the word "right" in the mouth of a person who has no understanding of or interest in individual rights in the proper sense, always means privilege, prerogative and license.
The poisonous Palestinian majority in Jordan has always kept the Hashemite Royal family in fear of a jihadist putsch.
Here is the folly of "democracy for the Arab people": if full democracy were established there, the Palestinian hate savages would have carried out their Islamo-Nazi putsch simply by voting.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.