The Jordanian Regime and the Palestinian Authority: A Continuous War on the Resistance
By Khaled Barakat
With every security operation carried out by the regime’s apparatuses in Jordan “against terrorism,” the mouthpieces of the authority resurface, finding in it their opportunity to renew their allegiance, spread lies and false allegations, and, of course, to attack the resistance and demonize its popular and armed base of support in Palestine, Lebanon, and the region.
They deliberately recall the “events of the 1970s” (in reality, the war on the resistance in Jordan), resurrecting them and attacking everyone, without preamble. They use this bloody history as a bogeyman, a crutch, and a pretext to justify repression, prevent demonstrations, and criminalize the forces of resistance—while also polishing their image before the circles of the enemy in Washington, Tel Aviv, London, and Paris. Thus, the authority in Jordan reinforces its distorted logic in the name of the “shield of the homeland,” and likewise, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah wages its attack on the resistance under the slogan of “protecting the homeland!”
It doesn’t take a feda’i operation for the regime’s henchmen to become enraged and wage their war on the resistance. Every “Capital Governor” who has come to Amman in recent years has issued a decree prohibiting the organization of a popular memorial festival for the martyr Abu Ali Mustafa, the former General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, assassinated by the Zionist enemy on August 27, 2001. This has happened multiple times. As for the position of the authority inside Palestine and the actions of its security apparatuses in Ramallah, this is a well-known story.
The regime’s mouthpieces scream so loudly that they deafen us with talk of “security,” “stability,” and the “Jordanian state,” wagging their fingers at the vanguard of the Jordanian people, spewing hollow slogans against “Iranian-backed groups,” saying nothing on live TV and appealing to bogeymen that no longer scare or deceive anyone. The Jordanian people—especially the new generation—understand the functional nature of the regime in Amman and its place in the American and Western strategy. They have seen all its plays and burnt-out films, time and time again.
Our people in Jordan and Palestine do not need anyone to point out the depth of the historical relationship between them; they are one people, bound by a single fate, and more than anyone else, they understand the role of the Jordanian regime and its paid agents working in service of the colonial project and the protection of the settlements and “borders” of the Zionist enemy.
The voices defending the “Hashemite throne” and the “Oslo-Wadi Araba agreements” are echoing from all forms of media following the announcement of “dismantling terrorist cells in Amman.” They race to defend the ruling class against the resistance and its popular base. They pant on oil-funded satellite channels and attack Iran, Hezbollah, and Ansar Allah—as if these parties, and not the Zionists, are the ultimate enemy. Thus, subordinate interests that have tied their fate to oil and foreign aid—scattered between the east and west banks of the Jordan River—become mobilized. No one but them stirs what they themselves call “sectarian and tribal tensions!” And no one like them incites strife, division and hatred among the people of a single nation.
The regime in Jordan wants to maintain its privilege in Jerusalem under the name of the “Hashemite custodianship of the holy sites!” A grand lie in the face of a reality that screams with cold facts about the state of the sacred, occupied city, which suffers death and humiliation at the hands of the occupation around the clock. Yet the regime—like the authority in Ramallah—sees neither Jerusalem nor the daily massacres in Gaza as issues worthy of severing relations with the Zionist entity.
It refuses to bear its historical and political responsibility for the loss of Jerusalem and the homeland in 1948 and 1967. At the same time, its security apparatus confiscates the citizens’ right to fight for Jerusalem, their own rights to freedom and to stand with Gaza, and their right to cry out against the actions of Ben Gvir and his herd of vicious settlers. It denies them the right to reject daily slaughter and the crimes of the enemy in Jerusalem: Judaization, displacement, house demolitions, and daily desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Muslim and Christian holy sites.
The Jordanian regime signed the Wadi Araba agreement in 1994, relying on the excuse that “the Palestinians preceded us with the Oslo Accords” (September 1993). This is the state of the official Arab regime, which targets the resistance, demonizes it, and then rushes toward normalization and Washington’s approval. It leans on “Camp David Egypt” and justifies its positions through its alliance with Amman and a powerless authority in Ramallah. This reactionary triangle paved the way for the Gulf, Morocco, and Sudan to be moved toward normalization—and even alliance—with the Zionist entity in the name of the Prophet Ibrahim, until today, we have reached the point of this gathering of regimes and entities in the Arab League, where rubble supports rubble in one image and one hall.
The joint Jordanian-Palestinian companies and banks are divided among a package of brokers and big merchants from both sides of the river, under U.S.-Gulf-Zionist sponsorship. This is, as we said, a single class—united by the dollar and shared interests—since the days of the British-sponsored “districts” to the current sectors linked to colonialism, occupation, and oil. This is an integral part of a colonial camp that has never left our region for even a single hour, possessing military bases in Jordan, Iraq, Syria, the Gulf, and elsewhere, and establishing a colony armed with nuclear weapons, slaughtering the people of Gaza in full view of the world without deterrence.
There is no longer any remnant of national sovereignty across our Arab homeland—except in the narrow besieged enclaves where the weapon of resistance exists. This weapon is now being targeted. Hence, the frequent talk about “disarmament,” “handing over arms,” and “one authority!” This is no coincidence, as the dear reader knows, but is the result of daily cooperation and coordination between parties sponsored by America and meeting regularly “for consultation” in Aqaba hotels!
It is therefore natural to witness an opposing and contrasting scene of solidarity and cohesion between the popular classes in Palestine and Jordan—where the crushed majority in Gaza, Jenin, Amman, Karak, and Hebron are the base of the resistance and the ones who have a real interest in unity, change, and liberation. If they rise up and support the resistance—or attempt to produce weapons, or smuggle them to the occupied land—they become, in the eyes of the Jordanian regime and the Oslo Authority, “gangs” outside the law, deserving of imprisonment, stoning, and persecution!
Published in Al-Akhbar (Lebanon)
Article link: https://www.al-akhbar.com/832454