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Jordan: “You are Palestinians, You Aren’t Allowed to Enter.”
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 20, 2014 @ 1:19 pm In The Point | 16 Comments
Maybe Israel should stop being a Zionist Imperialist Apartheid state and adopt the enlightened policies of its Muslim neighbors.
Jordan has officially banned entry to Palestinians from Syria since January 2013 and has forcibly deported over 100 who managed to enter the country since mid-2012, including women and children,” the report revealed.
The report quotes Basma, a Palestinian woman from Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, who describes how the Jordanians turned her and others back. “They told us, ‘You are Palestinians, you aren’t allowed to enter,’” she recounted. “They took us in a bus and dropped us on the Syrian side of the border at 2 a.m.”
Another Palestinian refugee from Damascus, 47-year-old Abdullah, was quoted as saying: “As we were crossing, the Jordanian army started firing at us. We all laid down flat on the ground to avoid the gunfire. After some moments two trucks with army officers came to us, before we knew what was happening an army officer shot five of us in our legs. We weren’t trying to flee.”
During the past three years, Jordan has received millions of Syrian refugees. But when it comes to Palestinians, the story is different.
There is also no talk about transforming Jordan into a “Syrian state,” as opposed to calls for creating a homeland for the Palestinians in the kingdom.
And why would that be? Because Jordan was the original Palestinian state before the Brits decided to hand it over to one of their pet Hashemite kings. The last one to manage to stay on the throne.
And he intends to stay there no matter how many Palestinian Arabs he has to shoot.
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