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The Royal Jordanian visit to Palestine on Monday 28 March 2022 was not the first; three other visits occurred in 1999, shortly after His Majesty King Abdullah acquired constitutional authority, in 2012, and in August 2017.
King Abdullah declared upon his visit in Ramallah that “Jordan would always stand behind Palestinian siblings and their rights, regardless of the obstacles.” “The Palestinian regions cannot enjoy security and stability without a just and comprehensive resolution to the Palestinian cause, based on a two-state solution that guarantees the formation of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 boundaries, with East Jerusalem as its capital,” he continued.
He also addressed the Palestinians, stating, “We are here today to hear from you what Jordan has to do to ease the difficulties and impediments you face, since we are both in the same boat.”
The Jordanian-Palestinian meeting in Ramallah on Monday 28 March 2022, concurrent with the Negev Six-Party Summit, was not a coincidence. Rather than that, it sought to clarify and communicate the declared bias through a single message with numerous headers and objectives through which it accomplished its purposes and intentions and reached who it was supposed to reach.
Current changes at the Arab, regional, and international levels necessitate vigilance and building good-neighborly relations with the goal of deepening bonds with brothers and friends, broadening the base of dealing and cooperation, in order to confront problems and challenges cooperatively. Similarly, to confront all parties that threaten our national rights and thwart their expansionist projects at the expense of Arabs, as the colony does, and just as Iran, Turkey, and Ethiopia continue to take measures and policies that violate good neighborliness and common denominators, which we take care of and which we as Arabs, Muslims, and Christians have an interest in preserving and developing.
We have emerged from the sins of the failed Arab Spring revolution, owing to the Islamic extremist movement’s dominance and the inability of modern, progressive, and democratic forces to impose their presence, values, and aspirations toward democracy and pluralism, and to manage state institutions through the ballot box results. Arabs faced the manifestations of the inter-war, which devastated Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, depleted and weakened the capabilities of the other parties, rendered us inferior to Iran, Turkey, and Ethiopia, and elevated the Israeli colony to a deciding role in our region, despite the crimes it has committed and continues to commit, its extensive occupation, and its ongoing colonial expansion program.
In light of these facts, Jordan remains steadfast in its commitment to pursuing national interests first and interdependence second, and ultimately to avoiding blackmail, humiliation, poverty, and a lack of money.
While we live in an impoverished land, we are wealthy in dignity and honor; without this profound choice and the national pride ingrained in our souls, the Ramallah-Jordan-Palestinian Summit would not have been.
By: Al- Quds Newspaper
