’Israel’ Summons Jordan Envoy over Article

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"Israel" summoned Jordan's ambassador Thursday to protest a so-called "anti-"Israeli"" article by a former Jordanian foreign minister, in which he based his argument on a Hitler quote, the foreign ministry said.

"Israeli" spokesman Yigal Palmor said "Israel's" embassy in Amman also sent the foreign ministry there an official protest over an article published on Monday by Kamel Abu Jaber in The Jordan Times.

In the second paragraph of the article titled "The big Zionist lie and the task ahead", Abu Jaber, foreign minister from 1991 to 1993, uses a quote from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to make a point about lying - in "the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility."

"The Zionist big lie about Palestine -'a land without a people' - that the entire Western world adopted, and the biblical, Talmudic myth of the 'chosen people' have been the most important factors behind all the tragedies and atrocities that Palestine and the Palestinians have been subjected to since (...) l897," Abu Jaber wrote.

He further added: "We Arabs, Jordanians and Palestinians especially, are victims of a torrent of lies by a few international media magnates that every day enter every room of every household, propagating not only sex and violence but also, above all, the Zionist ideas of the extreme right."

Palmor said foreign ministry deputy director general Aviva Raz called in ambassador Walid Obeidat to protest about the piece, which he claimed "was in essence anti-"Israeli", but basing it on Mein Kampf is definitely a red line, which brought an ‘anti-Semitic' spirit to some of the remarks."

"Israeli" soldiers in March killed a Jordanian judge at a border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, with the army saying it was investigating the circumstances.

Jordanian people have been demanding the cancellation of a so-called ‘peace' treaty with the Tel Aviv, expressing outrage over the Zionist entity's attempts to annex the al-Aqsa Holy Mosque.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team