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Why Is Jordan Knowingly Promoting a False Anti-Israel Narrative?
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Alan Baker and Lenny Ben David - There can be no excuse for Jordan's irresponsible official statements, which falsely accused Israel of "violating the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque" during Ramadan, despite the fact that it was groups of Palestinian Arab fanatics armed with clubs, fireworks, and rocks that initiated violence within the holy mosque. In similarly false allegations, Jordanian officials have accused Israel of preventing Christian access to holy sites in Jerusalem. The Jordanian leadership allowed itself to join the fanatical Islamic bandwagon and be drawn into echoing the false propaganda and hostility towards Israel, in clear violation of its peace treaty obligations with Israel. Jordan is too important a country and King Abdullah II too respected a leader to be party to harmful rhetoric.