Are you grid enough?

Daled Amos recently commented on the implications of Egypt supplying electricity to Gaza.Now Jordan is set to start supplying electricity to Jericho. Jordan, of course, claims that only humanitarian concerns are involved.

Jordanian officials insisted the Jericho hookup is only to help Palestinians and has no hidden political goal. “It’s meant to meet Palestinian power needs,” said Nasser Judeh, the minister for information.

Maybe, but one observer sees a little more:

But Jordanian political analyst Saleh Zaytoun said the new supply does carry “political overtones.” He called it “reminiscent of the custodianship the countries (Jordan and Egypt) once provided” for the Palestinian territories.

“[C]ustodianship?” Between 1948 and 1967 Egypt and Jordan were holding onto Gaza and the west bank of the Jordan River as custodian for the Palestinians? So that means during those nineteen years the Arabs supported the cause of Palestinian independence and were just holding onto the lands for the benefit of the Palestinian people.

Give me a break. They didn’t care about Palestinian statehood any more then than they do now. Palestinian statehood is a cause that only had resonance once it could be used against Israel. Create a Palestinian state and there’s no need to hate Israel. Of course that hate is important than the state. Even now.

On a side note: The reporters name is Jamal Halaby. Does anyone know if he’s related to Queen Noor?

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3 Responses to Are you grid enough?

  1. Elisson says:

    “The reporters name is Jamal Halaby. Does anyone know if he’s related to Queen Noor?”

    That’s a little like asking whether two random Smiths or Johnsons are related here in the USA.

  2. Lila says:

    There are many many Hallabys here. I drove today through an Arab village and noticed at least three shop windows with the name….

    And Custodianship is really a nice way of putting it.

  3. Batir Wardam says:

    You may rest assured that there is no political interest for Jordan in the Palestinian issue now. We in Jordan doo not want to get dragged into the chaos and dirty struggles within the Palestinian political/military streams, let alone doing the work of the Israelis in keeping Palestinians quite. If there is any idea for a Jordanian role in Palestine it will be the result of both Israeli and US pressures.
    http://www.jordanwatch.net/archive/2007/5/223449.html

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