January 14, 2009
As the Arabs see the Jews
Essay written and published in America by King Abdullah I of Jordan six months before the Israeli/Arab war of 1948:
Palestine is a small and very poor country, about the size of your state of Vermont. Its Arab population is only about 1,200,000. Already we have had forced on us, against our will, some 600,000 Zionist Jews. We are threatened with many hundreds of thousands more.
Our position is so simple and natural that we are amazed it should even be questioned. It is exactly the same position you in America take in regard to the unhappy European Jews. You are sorry for them, but you do not want them in your country.
We do not want them in ours, either. Not because they are Jews, but because they are foreigners. We would not want hundreds of thousands of foreigners in our country, be they Englishmen or Norwegians or Brazilians or whatever.
Think for a moment: In the last 25 years we have had one third of our entire population forced upon us. In America that would be the equivalent of 45,000,000 complete strangers admitted to your country, over your violent protest, since 1921. How would you have reacted to that?
Because of our perfectly natural dislike of being overwhelmed in our own homeland, we are called blind nationalists and heartless anti-Semites. This charge would be ludicrous were it not so dangerous.
No people on earth have been less "anti-Semitic" than the Arabs. The persecution of the Jews has been confined almost entirely to the Christian nations of the West.
More here.
Posted by Abbas Raza at 07:00 AM | Permalink
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King Abdullah had so much "concern" for the Palestinians that he annexed the West Bank after the Arab - Israeli war. The territory remained part of Jordan until the Six Day war of 1967. In fact King Hussein of Jordan never even referred to a Palestinian state until the nineties. He considered the West Bank and Jerusalem an integral part of Jordan. No resources were spent on the West Bank. No effort was expended on behalf of the refugees who continued to languish in camps.So ,Abbas Raza, when you seek allies for the delegitamization of Israel,think again. Abdullah did not give a fig about the Palestinians.
Posted by: Leon Levinsky | Jan 15, 2009 9:18:44 PM
Yes, I'm sure he was a nasty horrible man, or whatever. But what he said above is fair, is it not?
Posted by: Sagredo | Jan 16, 2009 4:05:19 AM
That said, Jews fleeing persecution had to live somewhere.
Posted by: Sagredo | Jan 16, 2009 4:08:05 AM
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