Wednesday, February 22, 2006
2/22/2006 09:51:00 PM | 
Posted by
JoeSettler
Rather strange.
A senior army officer (Central Command Chief Yair Naveh) apparently gave his assessment that King Abdullah will be Jordan’s last king. King Abdullah got all upset, and Mofaz has ordered an investigation against this officer and offered a clarification, retraction, and so on.
The Defense Ministry released a statement that "Israel considers Jordan a stable and solid state with a long tradition and a promising future."
Let’s examine a few things here.
First of all, as I recall it, the highest value they tried to cultivate into IDF officers is honesty.
Certainly if Naveh was giving his honest assessment of the situation, I am not sure why he needs to apologize or be investigated. Because he said something everyone already knows but prefers not to talk about?
Does someone really think his statement will destabilize Jordan's dictatorship?
Second, Jordan is a dictatorship, stable or otherwise, its people are not living in a democracy.
Is that what Israel believes in and supports? Stable dictatorships?
I thought that went out of fashion with Saddam.
Third, Abdullah may very well be Jordan’s last King, but whether he is or not is irrelevant.
Abdullah’s heir apparent is half-Palestinian, and somewhere between 66% to 75% (Naveh says 80%) of his kingdom is Palestinian (and growing). It is only a matter of time when the Palestinian majority eventually takes over and we will have yet another Palestinian state as our next door neighbor – whether by democracy, demography, inheritance, or revolution.
So let’s get real.
Bye-bye Abdullah.
A senior army officer (Central Command Chief Yair Naveh) apparently gave his assessment that King Abdullah will be Jordan’s last king. King Abdullah got all upset, and Mofaz has ordered an investigation against this officer and offered a clarification, retraction, and so on.
The Defense Ministry released a statement that "Israel considers Jordan a stable and solid state with a long tradition and a promising future."
Let’s examine a few things here.
First of all, as I recall it, the highest value they tried to cultivate into IDF officers is honesty.
Certainly if Naveh was giving his honest assessment of the situation, I am not sure why he needs to apologize or be investigated. Because he said something everyone already knows but prefers not to talk about?
Does someone really think his statement will destabilize Jordan's dictatorship?
Second, Jordan is a dictatorship, stable or otherwise, its people are not living in a democracy.
Is that what Israel believes in and supports? Stable dictatorships?
I thought that went out of fashion with Saddam.
Third, Abdullah may very well be Jordan’s last King, but whether he is or not is irrelevant.
Abdullah’s heir apparent is half-Palestinian, and somewhere between 66% to 75% (Naveh says 80%) of his kingdom is Palestinian (and growing). It is only a matter of time when the Palestinian majority eventually takes over and we will have yet another Palestinian state as our next door neighbor – whether by democracy, demography, inheritance, or revolution.
So let’s get real.
Bye-bye Abdullah.
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