Summary
Author of Chapter 23 of From the River to the Sea, “Ink, gas and water: Jordan’s peace with Israel” (23 November 2023), on Jordanian mobilization against the Wadi Araba Treaty and the gas deal (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 1762-1856).
Details
- As of 23 November 2023 Israel had killed more than 14,800 Palestinians; Jordanians demand abrogation of the Wadi Araba Treaty and of the 2016 gas deal, and scrutinize the 2021 US-Jordan defense deal and the seventeen US military bases in Jordan (lines 1768-1774).
- “Jordanians do not consider that they stand in solidarity with Palestinians. Rather, they consider the Palestinian struggle as their very own.” (lines 1790-1792)
- On 16 November 2023 Jordan backed out of the UAE-brokered water-for-energy deal, its foreign minister saying the peace deal “will have to remain on the back burner gathering dust for now” (lines 1828-1834).
- Jordanian civil society’s letter “The Masks Are Off”, by Sahar Aloul, names the selective application of international law and the “blind eye to the existence of the last settler colonial occupation” for seventy-five years (lines 1846-1848).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Wadi Araba Treaty, BDS movement, Al-Aqsa Mosque