Jordanian King Abdullah II on Wednesday said he was ready for a conflict should Israel’s incoming government violate “red lines” by changing the status quo governing relations at Yerushalayim holy sites.
“If people want to get into a conflict with us, we’re quite prepared,” Abdullah said in an interview with CNN. “I always like to believe that let’s look at the glass half full, but we have certain red lines… And if people want to push those red lines, then we will deal with that,” he added.
Jordan has since 1967 been the custodian of holy sites in the Israeli capital’s Old City, including the Al Aqsa Mosque that sits atop the Har Habayis, Judaism’s most sacred place.
While Muslims are allowed to freely visit and worship at the mosque, Jews are severely restricted from accessing the site where two biblical temples stood and are banned from praying there, although the latter stringency has been relaxed in recent years.
Abdullah also warned that the Palestinians could launch another terror war.
“We have to be concerned about a next intifada,” he said, adding: “If that happens, that’s a complete breakdown of law and order and one that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians will benefit from. I think there is a lot of concern from all of us in the region, including those in Israel that are on our side on this issue, to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
A spokesman for Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said the incoming Israeli government’s policy agenda constituted a “dangerous escalation.” Nabil Abu Rudeineh issued a veiled warning that there would be ongoing violence unless a Palestinian state was created, according to the official Palestinian Wafa news agency.
Abu Rudeineh called on the Biden administration “to turn its words into deeds since it is committed to the two-state solution, without which there will be no stability in the region.” JNS
Will someone please tell this guy that his father entered into a war with Israel even though the Israelis begged him to stay out of it. The Jordanians lost and Israel recovers Jerusalem and the West Bank. End of story. Unfortunately Moshe Dayan told the Mufti to keep the keys to the mosque when he wanted to hand them over since the Arabs had lost. Plus this whole area plus Jordan belong to the Jews and if he starts giving Israel problems they will hopefully take over Jordan also
Why on earth would we want Jordan?!
And clearly the decision to maintain the sites under Arab jurisdiction was min hashemayim. The chachamim are clear that we don’t belong on har ha bayis
You missed most of the history.
After the invader Zionists (not real Jews) literally terrorized the British into returning to the UN their Mandate over then-Palestine, Jerusalem was to be an international city.
In 1948, against the wishes of the UN, the Zionists declared their “State” which, of course, resulted in the formalizing of hostilities in the Zionist 1948 War of “Independence”.
Up until that time, Jews were able to daven at the Kosel. Decades earlier, the provocations of the irreligious Zionist thugs at that very Kosel is, as Rav Baruch Kaplan noted, what caused the Chevron Massacre.
At that time, when the Zionists declared their “State”, Jerusalem was to become an international city. The Zionists wanted Jerusalem for its propaganda value, so, against the warnings of the British-trained Jordanians, the Zionists attempted to capture Jerusalem, which compelled the Jordanians to enter the war and defeat the Zionists and cause more needless Jewish blood to be spilled thanks to the Zionists.
Close to two decades later, in the Zionists’ “Six Day War” of 1967, the Zionists finally succeeded in capturing Jerusalem. With that background…
See it now come to isreal see the sites Tel Aviv Jerusalem and Amman.
Funny. Who is not listening to our rabbis? It seems he notices.
Jordan is Palestine. Hey Kingy, take your terrorist Palestinians back into your/their country.