On March 24, 2011, the day after a bomb exploded in Jerusalem and after the firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel resumed, the Jordanian government daily Al-Dustour, in an editorial, blamed Israel for the renewal of Palestinian violence against it. The editorial, titled "Israel Is Responsible," stated that Israel was continuing its aggression towards the Palestinian people and also continuing to impede the peace process, and noted that "violence will [continue to] breed violence."
The following are excerpts from the article:[1]
"The renewal of violence in the occupied Palestinian territories comes as no surprise. As long as the Zionist enemy insists on continuing his aggression, whether via [construction in] the settlements, Judaization, or the crimes of ethnic cleansing, and as long as he insists on killing innocents in the Gaza Strip, demolishing homes over the heads of their residents, and perpetuating the siege, violence will [continue to] breed violence.
"Hence, Israel is the one responsible for the conflagration in the occupied territories, simply because it refuses to comply with international resolutions and to withdraw from all the occupied Arab lands, and because it opposes the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with holy Jerusalem as its capital and the return of the refugees as demanded by the international laws and charters.
"The international community told the Zionist gangs that they must put an end to the settlements, which violate international law and the [UN] Universal Declaration of Human Rights and which could blow up the peace process and take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to square one. And [the explosion] has indeed come, because the extremist Zionist right insisted on continuing this aggression, and [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu recently declared that he was willing to build 50,000 [new] housing units in the settlements over the next 18 months – particularly in occupied Arab Jerusalem, in order to accelerate its Judaization, thus turning this Muslim Arab city into a Biblical [Jewish] one by eradicating its original characteristics.
"[Jordan's] King 'Abdallah II has warned Israel more than once about the grave repercussions of allowing the peace process to fail, and urged it to give up [its constant sense of persecution] if it really wants to live in peace with the [rest of] the region. After all, it has been proven that force cannot achieve security and stability, and that these can only be achieved by recognizing the historical national rights of the Arab Palestinian people and its right to establish its independent state on its national lands within the June 5, 1967 borders. His Majesty stressed that the region would not enjoy peace and quiet until a just solution was found for the Palestinian problem, that would end the suffering of our Palestinian brethren once and for all – [for] their suffering has reached an extent that can no longer be tolerated...
"An examination of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict reveals that the enemy has not learned the lessons of the past, but insists on pursuing its fascist policy based on racist discrimination. [However,] the Palestinian people, which has accepted peace and the conditions [for achieving it], will not remain a prisoner of the Zionist conspiracies and of the Israeli policies based on the creation of facts on the ground through settlements, Judaization and transfer.
"In sum, it is the policy of the Zionist enemy that is responsible for the renewal of the violence and the lack of security and stability in the occupied Palestinian territories..."
[1] Al-Dustour (Jordan), March 24, 2011.
