Good Morning... from the House of Hashim

 
 

Todah to Dovid for sending this along, from israel today Magazine:

 

.... Jordan’s Education Ministry this week censured a local private school for using a history book that includes a chapter on the Holocaust and even cites portions of Anne Frank’s diary.

Jordanian newspapers referred to the story as a “sensational affair,” and Jordanian Education Minister Dr. Khalid Karaki immediately ordered a commission of inquiry to “examine and write a report about the implications of the incident.”

The school was ordered to stop using the history book.

Many hold up Jordan and even Egypt as examples of how Israel and its Arab neighbors can live in peace. But the truth is that while Israel has a peace agreement with the governments of both those nations, their populations and elected representatives still view Israel as an enemy.

In one of the many US diplomatic cables declassified by whistleblower website WikiLeaks recently it was revealed that American diplomats also recognize that as a whole, Jordan and Egypt are not at peace with Israel, and are likely to resume full hostilities with the Jewish state if their current governments are ever overthrown.

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

This is a story that needs to be told -- but so far has attracted little notice. Egypt is a powder keg -- and the spark will reach the powder the instant Mubarak dies, which -- according to all reports -- cannot be far off. The Muslim Brotherhood, which originated in Egypt and is, despite its international presence, still very much an Egyptian organization, and it detests Mubarak with all its soul. If, as is widely predicted, Mubarak's son succeeds him, the MB will do everything in its power to topple him before he gets comfortable. If they succeed -- and I wouldn't bet against them -- the Egyptian jihad against Israel will resume. The Jordanian situation is equally shaky. A huge number of Jordanians are Palestinians, who would no doubt be very happy to bring down the king and then unite Jordan with the West Bank in one very large Palestinian state. If either of these regime changes were to happen, Israel's strategic problems would multiply exponentially overnight. For years, Israel has focused its attention on Gaza and Lebanon. The establishment of jihadi governments in either Egypt or Jordan would make Israel's situation far more tenuous than it's been since 1967.

[Kae Gregory]

This is an example of smoke clearing, imo. One would have thought that when Turkey began revealing her cards that it would have been clear that Israel stands abjectly alone. Even Israel's political class, whose interests, for the most part, lie in fostering their images to the world body politic, are on the opposing side of this issue. At a time when world leaders tout a solution being closer than ever, the peace process is a bigger joke than ever. The only thing that is closer than ever is the possibility of Israel's destruction. And further (before I yield the soapbox) the rise in anti-Semitism through the world is largely down played, and that is masking a lit fuse, imo. If the world economy fails to recover, this problem will deepen because in the end, someone has to be blamed.

[Devremülk]

i like to read your posts. thanks for this one.