More on Queen Rania of Jordan’s false claims can be found here: “Jordan’s Queen Rania: Israel had one October 7, the Palestinians have had 156,” Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2024:
Queen Rania claims that the “dehumanization” of Palestinians is “systematic” in Israel and that it is unjustifiably ingrained in Israeli society to believe “if we don’t kill them, they’re going to kill us” regarding the Palestinians. She says that she blames “hardline leaders for keeping their people in this perpetual state of fear of an existential threat that doesn’t exist and making them feel like just killing Palestinians and killing Hamas is going to be the solution to the problem.”
So Israelis are kept in a “perpetual state of fear” by their own leaders? They have nothing to fear from Arab states that tried to destroy Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973? Nothing to fear, in 1948, when Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League, promised that the coming war between the Arab states and Israel would be a terrible one for the Jews. “This war,” he said, “will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades.” And in 1967, Gamal Abdel Nasser promised hysterical Cairene crowds that soon enough Egypt’s army would be in Tel Aviv, and Israel would no longer exist. In 1973, the surprise attack on Israel by the armies of Egypt and Syria almost led to an Arab victory. And ever since the 1970s, the Israelis have endured the scourge of terrorist attacks: the hijacking of planes, the murder of thousands of innocent Israelis shot dead on busses, blown up at Passover seders and in pizza parlors, run over or shot while waiting at bus stops and car washes, stabbed to death while shopping in an Arab village, or while walking through the Old City, whole families murdered when the parents were driving their children home from school in the West Bank, and on and on. It is not Israel’s leaders who keep the people of Israel in a “perpetual state of fear,” but the unending terror attacks that unnerve some in Israel. And yet despite these attacks, most Israelis have not succumbed to fear, but are fighting back against a ruthless enemy with cool determination, like the 360,000 IDF reservists who immediately showed up when called to help the professional army in Gaza to fight against Hamas. Israelis are not cowering in fear. Since 1948, they have given the world a lesson in bravery.
Queen Rania concluded the interview by saying, “We in this part of the world need to find a way to share these holy lands in peace.”
Israel has tried to make peace with the Arabs several times. In 1947, the Jews accepted the UN’s partition plan for “Palestine,” but the Arabs turned it down. In 1949, Israel offered to make the armistice lines into permanent borders, but the Arabs turned that offer down. After the 1967 war, Israel offered to make peace with the Arabs, who responded at a meeting of the Arab League in Khartoum with “the three No’s” — no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel and no negotiations with Israel. Israel eventually made a separate peace with Egypt, which in return for a promise of peace in 1979, got back from Israel the entire Sinai that Israel had won in the Six Day War. In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty. Israel and several Arab states have become members of the Abraham Accords, with those states agreeing to a “normalization of ties” with Israel. They include Morocco, Bahrain, and the UAE. That is now the best way to enlarge the circle of peace in the region. Queen Rania doesn’t mention it.
In 2000, Ehud Barak made a generous offer to Yassir Arafat, to return 92% of the West Bank, with compensating territory taken from Israel and given to the Palestinians. He also offered to give the Palestinians control over the Muslim and Christian Quarters of the Old City. Yassir Arafat wouldn’t even discuss it; he simply walked away. In 2008, Ehud Olmert made an even more generous offer to Mahmoud Abbas, which included giving the Palestinians 5.8% of Israel’s territory to compensate for the 6.3% of the West Bank that Israel, for security reasons, wanted to annex. That 5.8% of Israel was greater in area than the 6.3% of the West Bank that Israel wanted to retain. Olmert also offered to implement a five-nation trusteeship for the Holy Basin surrounding the Old City of Jerusalem.
Like Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas simply walked away. Yet here is Queen Rania, claiming that it is Israel that does not want to make peace.
Queen Rania is fetching in her outer aspect. But she is distinctly meretricious in her version of the Arab-Israeli conflict. There is an old French saying: Sois-belle, et tais-toi. Be beautiful, and stay quiet. A word to the wise, Queen Rania. A word to the wise.
Rick Gordon says
It’s a shame for the world that no one sees or reads material like this – or that the Queen cannot read and discuss it in a public forum.
Michalis says
Talking of history, how about the story of the martyrs of Gaza . . .
Go here and click on page 190.
Now, who are the oppressors? The invaders? The colonisers?
Yaakov Holansky says
After ALL of Gaza being returned to Gazans in 2005, Hamas physically leveled the Agri and manufacturing infrastructure left behind for them to get a head start with their economy. In it place Hamas placed missile batteries and fired missiles, rockets and mortars into sovereign Israel. 3X Hamas waged war against Israel in addition to its low intensity aggression of terror on civilians. This last time, 1200 were literally massacred. Compared to the US population it would have been the equivalent of 30000 dead. We don’t know at this point how many or what the composition is of the dead due the war caused by Hamas. Hamas is providing all information, a terrorist group through its ” Ministry of Health” that hid their command and control center
mgoldberg says
It is that all too clear example of turning the truth 180º when queenie opines about how the Israelis’ are taught that if they don’t kill the arabs the arabs will kill us. Indeed that is the turn speak of which others have detailed for so long now. Joan Peters in her brilliant tome noted “where you attack someone
and then turn it around 180 degrees and claim they attacked
you. Because the truth is the exact opposite of the information
being disseminated it is psychologically difficult to counter and
leads to confusion.
Turnspeak leads to psychological confusion and a feeling of
being “burned-out” or “overwhelmed” with too much
information, effectively creating a blanket of “white noise”
which makes clarity difficult to achieve.
Here the Queen has the unmitigated gall to promulgate the usual arab muslim inversion of facts and reality. That on a day that will live in infamy- gazan muslims went on a slaughtering spree, annihilating men women and children, slaughtering, raping, burning alive and gleefully filming and bragging about it. That is the victory long dreamed of and sung about by muslims and declared as holiness. This is without a doubt what amounts to bedrock muslim thinking and history.
James Lincoln says
mgoldberg,
Thanks for your reference to “turnspeak”.
I was unaware of this cognitive technique.
Somewhat similar to “gaslighting”.
mgoldberg says
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/turnspeak.html Has a copy of the statement of this by Joan Peters, who wrote ‘From Time Immemoral’, which was about the arab/jewish problem, and was published in 1985.
James Lincoln says
mgoldberg,
Published around 40 years ago – and it’s still true today.
Thanks for the link.
Yaakov Holansky says
Your Father in Law King Hussein had the sense to crush the PLO in Black September when they threatened his kingdom 1970-71. The Bedouin Legion was brutal and the PLO was crossing the Jordan to surrender to Israel. READ HISTORY
mgoldberg says
He crushed them with the help of what other nation? Israel.
maria says
She doesn´t know history (or doesn´t history)and she is like all muslims an antisemit.
abu taleb says
For Islam, peace means becoming muslims and living under Islamic rule.So, every non muslim is the obstacle of peace.
It is clear from how Islam divides countries into 2 categories, dar-ul islam (region of Islam) and dar-ul Harb (region of war) with another category which applies only those who have some agreement with Islamin country (but can be revoked at any time as in 9:1-7)
Rufolino says
If the queen is a Muslim why isn’t she wearing a black sack instead of Paris fashions ?
James Jackson says
Good point
William Kemmler says
Because the islamic requirement to wear the “black sack” only applies to the lower classes of moslem women and doesn’t apply to the likes of Queen Rania. But that’s common in most islamic states where the lower classes are held to the strict requirements of islam (on penalty of severe caning or death) while the upper class simply give lip service to islam and does what it pleases. I believe things would be quite different if the ruling class of islamic countries were held to the same islamic requirements that they impose on everyone else. But that will never happen and here we are and there we go.
Hoi Polloi says
The goal seems to be to have a heavily guarded select few opine from 35k feet in fully insulated, complete safety as to how the violent are actually peaceful until a worldwide firestorm is ignited. The chaos they create will, it seems they imagine, allow them greater control. Israelis, unlike this pampered individual, know firsthand how actual violence smells and looks and I believe they have the right to defend themselves and to fight back.
Bexarkat says
The “queen” of the Hashemite kingdom is of palestinian origins – or so she claims. Her comments are made to keep away an arab revolt by the palestinians who occupy 85% of Jordan’s population, Her husband, the “faux king” (pun intended) keeps her dripping in luxury at the expense of his subserviant subjects. History remembers Abdullah’s father, Hussein made two major mistakes, he joined the 1967 war against Israel and lost what’s popularly known as the west bank of the Jordan River, and his second mistake, was not attacking Israel October 6, 1973, when he easily could have recovered those lands from Israel who were almost totally engaged in the other two fronts. Of course, the latter was probably by design.
Jerome from Layton says
Queen R. needs to remember Black September being the time Jordan cleaned house on the PLO.