Posted on 04/30/2024 8:23:29 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
After Abu Marzouk claims good relations with Amman, veteran Jordanian diplomat responds that country ‘has closed the book on Palestinian cells’
Jordan on Tuesday quickly dispelled the idea that Hamas leaders would be welcome to set up their offices on their territory after a senior Hamas official suggested the terror group’s political bureau would move to the kingdom if it was forced to leave its current home in Qatar.
It was reported earlier this month that Hamas’s political chiefs are exploring moving their base of operations out of Qatar, as the Gulf state faces increasing pressure over its influence with the terror group in indirect hostage-for-truce negotiations with Israel.
Seeking to dismiss the rumors, Mousa Abu Marzouk told Iran’s al-Alam TV network Monday that the terror group’s leaders would not move to Iraq, Syria or Turkey, adding that “any potential relocation, which is not currently happening, would be to Jordan.”
“Jordan is a supportive nation for Palestinian resistance, and Hamas maintains a positive relationship with the Jordanian government,” he said.
The Hamas leadership was expelled from Jordan and its offices shut by King Abdullah in 1999, with the newly nominated king accusing the terror group of meddling in Jordan’s sensitive relations with its significant Palestinian population.
Doha has hosted Hamas’s politburo leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, since 2012, and has become a key mediator in the war between the terror group and Israel, particularly in efforts to secure a hostage release and truce deal. The country is one of Hamas’s main backers, transferring hundreds of millions of dollars to the terror group annually.
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said last week there were no plans to close the office of Hamas’s political bureau as long as its mediation efforts were ongoing in the Israel-Hamas war.
According to the Ynet news site, Jordan’s government was angered by Abu Marzouk’s declaration. Citing Jordan intelligence, the report said the kingdom believed Iran pushed the idea after its military took part in a United States-led coalition that intercepted the missile and drone attack launched against Israel on April 13-14.
The report said the Jordanian government dispatched veteran diplomat Ziad Majali to quickly pour cold water on the idea.
“Hamas behaves as if there’s no state and no authority in Jordan that will decide and determine how to act and how to conduct itself,” Majali was quoted as saying. “Jordan has closed the book on Palestinian cells — and we do not intend to reopen it.”
Amid regular anti-Israel demonstrations in Jordan, a senior security source in the country told Ynet that many detained at those protests “are exposed as doing Hamas’s leadership’s bidding or have received money to attend protests,” and are kept in prison.
“We keep them in custody because the era of Palestinian organizations doing as they please in Jordan is over. We’re an organized kingdom with policy priorities and won’t allow anybody to interfere in our affairs,” the source said.
Decades before its dispute with Hamas, Jordan came into open conflict with the Palestinian Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat in 1970, during a period known as Black September, in which thousands of Palestinians were killed.
By the end of the violent conflict, the PLO was pushed out of major cities in Jordan and the then-king Hussein had consolidated his power.
When will the protests start in Jordan......besides never.
For the Jordians: WISDOM! (SOPHIA!)
May they continue to stand upright and remain steadfast!
Jordan has already had their experiences with the Palis some years back. When given sanctuary in Jordan, the Palis soon began an insurgency to overthrow the Jordanian government. After quite a bit of violence, Jordan was finally able to eject them. They then went to Lebanon and succeeded in wrecking the state there.
And then, having wrecked Lebanon, Pales continued on to wreak havoc in Libya and Kuwait, as recollection serves.
It’s an inexplicable aberration of humanity. No one wants terrorists.
Except American leftist college students.
Jordan of course was the Arab half of the original two state solution imposed by the UN in 1947-48. Israel for the Jews, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for the Arabs (they didn’t talk about Palestinians in those days.) Israel accepted, the Arabs blew it off and declared war on Israel.
What about the United Kingdom?
He will do what his Sugar Daddy (USA) tells him to do.
The Palestinians burned their welcome to Jordan decades ago.
Nobody wants them because all they do is protest, or carry
out terrorist acts. They try to topple governments and
take over.
Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, and now the United States
have all had to deal with them. And then there was the
Olympics from decades ago. There were airliners hijacked
over and over.
No one wants to say it openly in the Middle-East, but
these are the leading pariah’s of the planet.
Now Biden wants to move them here, knowing full well what
the long term toll will be.
Someone needs to put their foot down on this nonsense.
Biden and Columbia University have volunteered.
One way ticket to Gaza, period. By slow boat. Give the Israeli’s a head’s up. Then talk all their money as the US is trying to do to Russia. Winkie Wink.
WOW, WHAT A SURPRISE.
JORDAN KICKED THESE LUNATICS OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY YEARS AGO.
WHAT HAPPENED??? DID THEY REFORM???
THEY GOT WORSE.
GOOD FOR JORDAN.
Just more proof no one wants the unwanted fake Palestinian Arabs. Extermination is the best answer. Make Gaza an Israeli waterfront resort area and the West Bank a toxic waste dump.
Why wouldn't the King want them! They murdered his grandfather on the Temple Mount, then tried to overthrow his father. They deserve another shot at the family. Related threads
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“Now Biden wants to move them here, knowing full well what
the long term toll will be.”
Everybody knows they are trouble, but Biden probably assumes (correctly) that they will be Democrat voters. The worst case would be to concentrate them into a few urban areas in the USA, to facilitate their organization militant organizations - and that is likely what he will do.
It’s the chance of a lifetime for Israel to get rid of a bunch.
Jordan is a rival Palestinian state. Why would they want to let Hamas in?
Under no circumstances should they come here.
Look at what is going on today on campuses across the nation.
There’s no such thing as only a few places. They will turn millions here against our nation.
If allowed they will destroy our nation all on their own. That has been their
stock and trade for the last 70+ years.
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