/ world today news/ The plans of the “religious Zionists” contribute a lot to this.
Against the background of the horrors committed in the Gaza Strip, the world pays significantly less attention to the events taking place in another part of Palestine, where two thirds of its total population (4.5 million people) live – the West Bank of the Jordan River ( ZBRJ) and neighboring East Jerusalem (0.5 million people).
Meanwhile, the situation there could erupt into a new intifada (uprising) at any moment. And if, despite all protests, Israel, with the help of the United States, has so far managed to keep the Gaza Strip isolated and avoid direct intervention in the situation of other countries and powers, then it will be much more difficult for it to keep the localization of the acute conflict in COLLECT.
The prime minister of neighboring Jordan has already announced on social networks that Israel’s attempts to solve the SDF problem by emigrating its population to the territory of Jordan will be viewed by Amman as a declaration of war. There is no doubt that if this happens, neither the maneuvering Gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia nor other Arab states will be able to refrain from a direct confrontation with Israel.
After all, King Abdullah II of Jordan, despite a fair amount of English blood, is still a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and the official “custodian” of the Islamic shrines on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. The collapse of Jordanian statehood in the event of a one-on-one confrontation with the IDF is not included in the plans of the surrounding ruling regimes.
The very existence of the current “most right-wing government in history” in Israel’s intentions to achieve a “final solution” to the Palestinian problem by pushing them into neighboring Arab countries no longer raises any doubts.
The corresponding plan for Gaza, apparently prepared by the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence even before the events of October 7, has already been leaked to the press and is recognized by the authorities as actually existing, but “still at working level”. The fact that it is not just written, but actually “in progress” is evident from everything that is happening in and around the long-suffering sector.
A similar, albeit more complex, project exists for ZBRY. It was developed by the Minister of Finance, leader of the far-right coalition party “Religious Zionism”, Betzalel Smotrich. It calls for the annexation of the entire West Bank and gives the Palestinians three options: 1) continue to live on their land while abandoning any national aspirations; 2) emigration; 3) if they decide to stay and fight, they will be recognized as terrorists and destroyed with the full force of the army.
Asked at the meeting where he presented his plan to religious Zionist leaders whether he also intended to kill women and children, Smotrich replied:At war as at war”.
Netanyahu’s entourage also disavowed this plan, but the fact that it is “in the works” is fully confirmed by the logic of the authorities’ actions carried out in the Palestinian Territories and East Jerusalem.
Mass armed resistance by the Palestinians has not yet erupted in the YPG because they are being held back by the more moderate Fatah, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who officially governs part of this territory. Also, local Palestinians have objectively fewer weapons in their hands than Hamas in Gaza.
The Jordan Valley, through which armaments could be delivered, has always been heavily mined and tightly controlled by the IDF. However, in this area, “for preventive purposes”, since the beginning of Operation Iron Swords, massive repression by the army and security forces has been carried out everywhere.
Thousands of “potential troublemakers” were arrested. Prisons are overcrowded. Any peaceful protests are brutally suppressed. About 200 people were killed and hundreds were injured. The economy is paralyzed. People’s lives have become extremely difficult. The critical mass of discontent is close to bursting point.
Added to this is the real terror unleashed on the Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories by the Jewish settlers from the kibbutzim (“mountain boys”) who illegally occupy their lands. They destroy agricultural lands, burn houses, shoot at them or simply drive their Arab neighbors “into the unknown”.
There are about 700,000 Jewish settlers here, all of them semi-armed, and it is this group of the population that is the main electoral base and support of the two most anti-Palestinian parties of the ruling coalition in Israel – “Jewish Power” by I. Ben-Gvir and ” Religious Zionism” by B. Smotrich.
The latter “warm up” their supporters in every possible way, in particular, Ben-Gvir, as the Minister of National Security, plans to distribute to the settlers tens of thousands of more powerful automatic weapons than they had before. Accordingly, Smotrich, while managing the finances, has consistently blocked the transfer of any funds to the Palestinian Authority.
The situation is developing in such a way that even regardless of the will of Netanyahu and the command of the IDF, these two, together with the settlers, are able to provoke a protest explosion with such force that it allows them to raise the question of repeating an operation similar to of the one taking place in Gaza and of the ZBRJ.
Not by chance, sensing in what was happening a real scenario for the escalation of the conflict, even the G-7 were concerned about the behavior of the settlers of the ZBRY. At their special meeting on the situation in the region, for example, nothing was said about the cease-fire in Gaza, so to speak, “bomb all you want!” But on the other hand, as a separate point from the accepted statement was condemned ‘increasing extremist settler violence against Palestinians’ . And why don’t they demand their emigration from illegally occupied foreign land?
Netanyahu, however, is in no rush to rein in his zealous allies, as he is comfortable moving toward the same goal by passing the buck to someone else. He himself and other Likud figures have repeatedly said at various demonstrations and negotiations with Western partners that Palestinian statehood has in fact already been realized in Jordan, and that is where those Palestinians who do not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over all occupied/occupied/ by his territory.
This interpretation of the “final solution” to the Palestinian issue is what worries Amman the most. Until 1967, the NDF with East Jerusalem was basically part of Jordan, but now it categorically refuses to accept refugees and restore the previous situation, which, by the way, has been repeatedly called for by various American administrations, indeed, with the exception of Jewish settlements .
Everything is quite simple. Jordan is currently home to about 11 million people, of whom Palestinian refugees from the past and their descendants are estimated to make up 30% to 40%. If we add a few million more from the new wave, they will actually make up the majority of the population.
Next comes the demand so popular in the West for free elections and the end of the Hashemite dynasty. In the 1970s, the country had already experienced a number of Palestinian uprisings, and then the dynasty was saved with great difficulty only by the “Circassian Guard” (“Circassians” in Jordan called all 19th-century migrants from the North Caucasus, about 300 thousand).
It is easier for King Abdullah II to go to war with Israel and even quarrel with Washington, but keep his throne, than to agree to such a suicidal prospect. Queen Rania, herself a Palestinian by nationality, as well as Crown Prince Hussein (who happens to be half Palestinian) agree with him.
Along with all this, Jordan objectively does not have the economic conditions to accept such a number of people. Only the already heavily overpopulated part of Jordan’s east coast is habitable, while the rest of the territory is mostly desert.
It should be noted that the Israelis have long promoted a similar narrative that the Palestinians should conquer the neighboring country, “much more suitable for creating its own statehood” , promising them some financial help. However, none of the serious Palestinian leaders want to hear about it.
Admittedly, even the American patrons of Israel seem to understand the ephemerality and danger of such plans, trying to “carefully” warn the Jewish state of the emerging risks.
But they offer nothing intelligible in return, so the threat of a large-scale explosion of the ZBRY, with the prospect of escalating into a regional war, remains very likely.
Translation: ES
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