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Why Arab Countries Do Not Want Gazans
American Thinker ^ | 1 Mar, 2025 | Mudar Zahran

Posted on 03/01/2025 4:37:35 AM PST by MtnClimber

If the world is serious about ending Palestinian suffering, it must hold Arab rulers accountable for deliberately sustaining this conflict.

For decades, Arab nations have positioned themselves as staunch supporters of the Palestinian cause, yet their actions suggest otherwise. Although they publicly denounce Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, behind closed doors, many Arab leaders have systematically worked to prevent a permanent resolution to the Palestinian issue. Nowhere is this hypocrisy more evident than in the refusal of most Arab states — particularly Jordan — to integrate Palestinians, despite historical, demographic, and geopolitical realities that make Jordan the most viable Palestinian homeland.

Jordan is historically part of Palestine, with the majority of its population being Palestinian. Given these facts, Jordan should logically serve as the natural homeland for displaced Palestinians rather than advocating for a separate Palestinian state in the West Bank or Gaza. However, the Hashemite monarchy, which has ruled Jordan since its creation as a British protectorate, actively disenfranchises Palestinian Jordanians, maintaining them in a second-class status while simultaneously portraying itself as a champion of Palestinian rights.

Western policymakers often justify Jordan’s treatment of Palestinians by referencing the events of 1970, when King Hussein used the Pakistani army to crush an attempted PLO takeover. However, declassified White House documents suggest a different perspective. Then–U.S. secretary of State Henry Kissinger viewed the idea of Palestinian self-rule in Jordan as the chance for a solution to the Palestinian question. In a White House memo to President Nixon, Kissinger argued that a Palestinian-led government in Jordan could provide “a Palestinian settlement.”

Nixon did not support the concept. This allowed King Hussein to enlist the support of Pakistan, which sent troops to Jordan and swiftly suppressed the Palestinians, killing thousands of civilians. With that, the prospect of a Palestinian state in Jordan

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: arab; jihad; jordan; palestinkians; plo
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1 posted on 03/01/2025 4:37:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The PLO only seems interested in causing trouble wherever they go.


2 posted on 03/01/2025 4:37:48 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Given these facts, Jordan should logically serve as the natural homeland for displaced Palestinians.

When the Palies lived in Jordan, they tried to overthrow the government of Jordan, so Jordan kicked them out in 1970. The Jordanians don't want them back. Other Arab states don't want them either.

3 posted on 03/01/2025 4:44:27 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

Palestinians are the leaches of the world.
They have been offered peace many times.
They refuse only wanting the destruction of Israel and the Jews.


4 posted on 03/01/2025 4:46:02 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

I think Tunisia kicked the PLO out too.


5 posted on 03/01/2025 4:51:19 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The best thing that could happen to Gaza is an asteroid.


6 posted on 03/01/2025 4:53:11 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

It’s ours.


7 posted on 03/01/2025 4:54:38 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Joe Boucher

The Palestinians are their own worst enemy.

And twas ever thus.


8 posted on 03/01/2025 5:02:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: MtnClimber

Palestinians have one job skill: trouble.


9 posted on 03/01/2025 5:03:02 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: MtnClimber

The Palestinians tried to assassinate the King of Jordan when they were there as guests.

They were driven out and went to Lebanon and destroyed that country.

They are poison.


10 posted on 03/01/2025 5:13:16 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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The Palestinians are the Arab world equivalent of the Mariel boatlift. Kick out all the troublemakers, criminals and insane, and dump them on Israel’s doorstep. Problems solved! Israel and Palestinians.


11 posted on 03/01/2025 5:14:24 AM PST by Cheesehead in Texas ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Many of us are old enough to remember all the airplane hijackings, the Munich Olympics, and the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking where Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard.


12 posted on 03/01/2025 5:16:59 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Or all the kidnappings. I have two Lebanese friends that were kidnapped by them.

Also, remember the Anglican peace envoy Terry Waite?


13 posted on 03/01/2025 5:18:46 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: MtnClimber

They’re not fully evolved... chromosomes missing, and everyone KNOWS it


14 posted on 03/01/2025 5:20:26 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I’m pretty sure there must be one or two lying around somewhere in our arsenal 😁


15 posted on 03/01/2025 5:21:48 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

Which is why they ought to be relocated to Somalia! Just another warring tribe there.


16 posted on 03/01/2025 5:22:02 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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“I think Tunisia kicked the PLO out too.”

The Palis should go to Ukraine and help fight the Russians. Or go to Russia and help fight Ukraine. Either is fine with me.


17 posted on 03/01/2025 5:34:01 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Privatize the administrative state!)
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To: MtnClimber

Besides just wanting the issue, like race hustlers, they also know that “Palestinians “ are nothing but trouble in their countries, ask Lebanon


18 posted on 03/01/2025 5:34:18 AM PST by blitz128
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To: MtnClimber

Are there no deserted islands anywhere? Send them on a 3-hour tour.


19 posted on 03/01/2025 5:40:23 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Correct. Palestinians are the trailer trash of the Middle East. Everywhere they are displaced to, they create dissection and internal conflict by design. That happened to Jordan. It happened to Lebanon.

…..and it happened to Dearborn.

I don’t blame King Hussein in the least.

RLTW.


20 posted on 03/01/2025 5:55:59 AM PST by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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