August 30, 2011: A report in a Saudi paper stated Jordan reiterated its opposition to the plan, and that Jordan’s King Abdullah II has communicated his stance to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas several times to no avail, as Abbas continues to ignore Abdullah’s stance on the matter, much to the latter’s frustration.

While the impression is that the Arab world supports the Palestinian Authority’s plan to declare an independent Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and seek UN recognition of it, the truth is that numerous Arab countries oppose it. 

The most vocal Arab country opposing the PA’s “September plan” has been Jordan, which threatened to vote against approving the PA state when the UN General Assembly votes on the matter.

Jordan contends that if the UN approves the establishment of a PA state before negotiations with Israel are complete, the descendants of British Mandate Arabs who fled Israel when the state was re-established in 1948 will lose any claim they have to return to their family’s previous homes, or receive compensation. Israel will refuse to negotiate on their status, claiming the PA broke the Oslo agreements, and that Israel is not under any obligation to negotiate the issue any further with the PA, Abdullah was quoted as telling Abbas in the report.

Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated that Jordan was not the only Arab country opposed to the PA’s plan. “In the coming weeks I am sure we will hear about other leaders criticizing the PA,” he stated. “The only way to move forward is for both sides to return to the negotiating table.”

A PA state of Palestinian Arabs may also activate the plot of “Black Setmember and demise the Hashemite Kingdom and Saudi arabia.

August 30, 2011: Sheikh Abu Hader Jaabari, the Mukhtar of Hevron, stated in an interview with INR that Israel made a bad mistake when it chose dialogue with the foreign entity of the PLO instead of local tribal leadership.

He stated he misses the days that preceded the Oslo Accords. Speaking emotionally and with conviction, Jaabari stated that there is no way of establishing another “Palestinian” state.

Firstly, he stated, Islam forbids Arab leaders from ceding any part of the land, which is considered holy. Therefore, any kind of land compromise is not valid from a religious viewpoint. Secondly, he stated, Israel is present everywhere on the land, there are checkpoints everywhere and there is no way to create an independent Arab country, because there is not enough land to create it on.

“I wish we had remained in the pre-Oslo period,” Jaabari stated. “The situation was much better, at least economically. Today we have over 40% unemployment. Most of the factories have closed down, and drug trafficking within the populace has grown. People find themselves in a vacuum; they look for their path.”

“We are basically a conservative nation. Now there is no conservatism, no anything.” The solution, he stated, is not to divide the land between Jews and Arabs but to establish a single country in which Jews and Arabs will have equal rights.

Regarding the Jewish fear that Arabs would eventually gain a majority in such a country, he stated: “You have a fear of demography. But I think the Arabs are going down demographically and the Jews are only going up. Our women have begun to work and they are content with one or two children.”

Ayoub Kara floated the idea that Arabs would have full rights in Israel but would not be able to vote for the Knesset. Sheikh Jaabari stated he would agree to this arrangement as a temporary one, until trust was established between Jews and Arabs.

Kara suggested that Palestinians are in effect Jordanians, and do not need an additional state. Jaabari agreed that most Jordanians are Palestinians and that many of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria are Jordanian citizens. However, he stated that once Jordan announced its disengagement from Judea and Samaria in 1988, the option of “Jordan as Palestine” became difficult to implement.

Perhaps a confederation of some sort with Jordan or Israel is still possible, he stated, but this too is difficult after the Oslo process, because “everyone wants to be a part of the leadership and if there is no state there is no leadership.”

In any case, he stated, an independent Palestinian state is not an option.The interview with Jaabari was conducted at his home, in the presence of Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara.

Mar/02/11: Pope Benedict XVI announced the Jewish people are not collectively responsible for the death of Jesus, who Catholics worship as divine. Pope Benedict XVI underlines the new position in his book “Jesus of Nazareth.” Who has insisted on the condemnation of Jesus to death?” he asks in the book.

During the times of Jesus the Roman empire occupied the territories known to them as Palestina and previous known as the Holy Land, inclusive of Israel and Judea. “The Gospel of John says the people in question were “the Judeans,” but the pope states the term “does not refer to, unlike the modern reader may tend to interpret – the people of Israel as such, and it doesn’t even have a ‘racist’ connotation.” Judeans were a multicultural Palestinian society of Arabs, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Samarians, Euopran mercenaries, Assyrians, Bedouin nomads and Jews

Therefore, with reference to scenes in the Gospels and aforementioned; the people of Jerusalem, demand that Roman governor Pontius Pilate have Jesus crucified. Keep in mind that the Judeans other than the Jews believed in many gods of various deities, which included Manthra, Jupiter and Zeus. Palestinians from the Roman and Greek cultures often referred to Ju-Zeus as Jesus.

The Pope also countered accusations made by previous Catholic leaders, who claimed Jews living in the Second Temple times had collaborated with Roman authorities to kill Jesus. Using biblical sources to support his point, the Pope stated there is no Scriptural basis for blaming the Jews in any way.
Far from meaning all Jewish people, Benedict writes, “the circle of prosecutors pursuing the death of Jesus” is the “aristocracy of the Temple,” or the priesthood. However, the aristocracy of the Second Temple,” or the Chief priesthood were foreigners or converts, appointed by the Roman Governor and non of them where from the lineage of Aaron or Kohanim of Judaism. It is a fact that non of these Chief priests survived after Yom Kippur.

Many Catholics and other Christians blamed Jews for Jesus’ death for hundreds of years, but the Catholic Church formally repudiated that assertion in the 1960s. Catholic leaders’ blame of Jews for Jesus’ death was a major factor in persecution of Jews in Europe for centuries.
Benedict has had a difficult relationship with Jews during his six-year papacy.He infuriated many by welcoming back into the church a rebel bishop who is on record as saying that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler did not have a systematic plan to murder Europe’s Jews. The rebel bishop also minimized the role of the Auschwitz death camp in the Holocaust. Benedict later ordered the bishop, Richard Williamson, to recant his views, saying the Vatican was not aware of them when it decided to lift his excommunication.

Benedict also put his predecessor, Pius XII, on the path to sainthood, further antagonizing many Jews, who believe the World War II-era pope did little to save Jews from Hitler. But Benedict also last year became the first pope to visit Rome’s main synagogue since 1986, trying to smooth feathers on an annual “Day of Dialogue” with the Jewish community.

The Jewish community “believes that Benedict’s desire to continue dialogue is sincere,” stated Lisa Palmieri-Billig, the American Jewish Committee’s liaison to the Holy See, just before the January 2010 meeting. “They believe the dialogue and the relationship are very important.”

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