Jordan has a peace treaty with Israel. A peace treaty is by far a more solid document than the so-called Abraham Accords negotiated between a handful of Arab nations and Israel. So, why is Clifford D. May lamenting that Jordan has not joined the Abraham Accords? Is he thinking of replacing the peace treaty? Or is he thinking establishing a redundancy?
Actually, Clifford May is lamenting for two other reasons.
The first is that the Abraham Accords represent the political fad of the day.
And when there is a fad, the trivial thing to do is embrace it, then urge
everyone else to do the same. The second reason Clifford May has, is that the
coming into being of the Accords, is credited to Donald Trump. Those who love the
man despite his faults, wish to see him credited for what’s worthy and what’s
not. It must be that Clifford May is of that clutch.
But whatever case Clifford May is trying to build, the
question is this: has he been convincing? Well, the reality is that May’s
current article contains more stink bombs than any he wrote before. To see
this, we begin by exploring examples that define “aggressor” and “victim”.
An aggressor would be a home invader. It is someone that
may or may not have a home of his own, but would invade someone else’s home
because he covets the thing, or because of another reason. As to the definition
of victim, it is the person whose home has been invaded. This alone is a
horrible thing to happen to someone, but gets worse when the home invader
accuses the victim of being the aggressor.
And so, my friend, you’ll find that Clifford May has
turned a real life situation into a stink bomb that is so smelly, it will
disgust you for an eternity. Here is how he did that:
“The Abraham Accord signatories
sympathize with the Palestinians. Hamas, which rules Gaza, is openly committed
to jihad and genocide. Once upon a time, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the
Palestinian Authority that governs the West Bank, was seen as a peacemaker—but.
King Abdullah faces unique challenges. In 1921, with the backing of the British
Empire, Abdullah I, the current monarch’s great-grandfather, founded the
Emirate of Transjordan. That entity evolved into the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Millions of
Jordanian citizens descend from families who lived in eastern Palestine. Others
moved to Jordan, fleeing wars launched by Israel’s Arab neighbors
— Jordan among them — in 1948 and 1967. In other words, millions of
Jordanians identify as Palestinians”.
What Clifford May says here, is that Hamas, whose home
has been Gaza since the beginning of time, is the aggressor—and a genocidal one at that in the ongoing
dispute with the Jews—because the latter invaded the Hamas
home expecting to be welcomed with kisses and hugs but got neither. The same holds
true for Mahmoud Abbas, says Clifford May, because it was thought that he will
take the inhuman Jewish abuses with a smile—which he did for a while—but then
let it be known that he has had enough of this nonsense, and started to look
for legal remedies to what the Jews have been doing to the home of Palestinians
they invaded and continue to occupy.
As if this stink bomb were not enough, Clifford May added
another to it, perhaps to make certain that the nausea will be long lasting. What
May did this time was accuse the Arabs of launching wars against Israel in 1948
and 1967. But the reality is that in 1948, the Arab countries were colonies of
the Ottoman Empire. They had police forces to keep the peace internally, but no
armies of their own with which to fight outside of their borders. By contrast,
the Jewish invaders from Europe had come equipped with state of the art weapons
including an air force — this, at a time when most
people in the region had not even seen a civilian plane fly over their heads.
So then, what did happen in 1948? What happened was that
reports of the massacre which the Jewish invaders were conducting in Palestine
so alarmed the Arab neighbors, they told the Palestinians to protect themselves
in any way they could, including fleeing to the neighboring countries. The
Palestinians did just that but were pursued by the Jewish killers. That’s when
skirmishes took place between the heavily armed Jews and the lightly armed Arab
police. And this, my friend, does not count as war.
As to the 1967 war, this is the one for which Israel had
been preparing for eleven years. It all started in 1956 when the Jews who were
ditched by the Soviets, turned to the old colonial masters Britain and France,
and asked them to show Israel how to attack Egypt. The move served the Jews
whose plan was to keep the neighbors in a permanent state of underdevelopment.
And it served Britain and France who wanted to take back the nationalized Suez
Canal. And then, in the same way that Egypt was surprised by the 1956 attack,
it was surprised by the 1967 attack.
Finally, to add humor to his gloomy view concerning the
subject matter we’re discussing, Clifford May did something that’s glowingly expressed
by the following story:
If someone out there in Timbuctoo or a faraway place, voiced
the wish there was a gadget to measure the environment-polluting farts of cows,
a Jewish Jack-in-a-Box would instantly pop up and declare that the little fart
that’s Israel is the envy of the world because it is the world’s leader in fart
technology.