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EXCERPTS: Elements seek to destabilize Jordan.Jordan closer to Iraq --a move
from US?Barak the brutal. 11 October 2000
+++JORDAN TIMES 11 Oct.'00: " Gov't has 'concrete evidence' of attempts
to brew trouble in last week's demonstrations" By Saad G. Hattar
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
"The government is squeezed between passionate public sentiment
and potentially destructive "elements" who sought to destabilise
Jordan, officials and political analysts said"
"anti-peace parties `are seeking to export the riots from the
Palestinian
territories to the Jordanian arena so as to diveert international
attention
from Israeli shoulders.' "
"The authorites had `concrete evidence that certain parties were
behind riots.
. . . `We refrain from naming these parties in order to preserve
the Kingdom's
social cohesion.' "
"63 policemen were injured by stone-throwing protesters and 97
people were
referred to civil courts in connection with the riots. At least 29
police vehicles,
39 civilian cars and 13 UN cars were vandalised"
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EXCERPTS:
AMMAN - The government is squeezed between passionate public
sentiment and potentially destructive "elements" who sought to
destabilise
Jordan, officials and political analysts said on Tuesday.
"We understand and back the people's outrage and yearning for some kind
of expression, but we will never allow unruly factions to hamper the
country's march," Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Awad
Khleifat told a press conference on Tuesday.
According to the minister, during last week's protests and
demonstrations,
anti-peace parties "are seeking to export the riots from the
Palestinian
territories to the Jordanian arena so as to divert international
attention from
Israeli shoulders."
Khleifat said the authorities had "concrete evidence that certain
parties were
behind riots that erupted in refugee camps and several areas of Amman."
He did not divulge the identity of those parties.
"We refrain from naming these parties in order to preserve the
Kingdom's
social cohesion," the minister said.
Independent sources told the Jordan Times that Damascus-based,
anti-peace Palestinian factions sought to wreak havoc across the
country by
exploiting public rallies and marches.
They mainly pointed the finger at the "Fatah Intifada" faction led by
Khaled
Emleh, nicknamed Abu Musa, a foe of Palestinian President Yasser
Arafat.
The minister's remarks came four days after the authorities banned
public
rallies and marches in reaction to damage to public property during the
riots
and the shooting death of an 18-year-old youth in Baqaa refugee camp.
Nearly 300 public events had been staged across the Kingdom in one
week... .
Khleifat said criminal investigations had established that the youth,
Osama
Abdul Karim, was fatally struck by a Kalashnikov bullet.
"Police forces are not equipped with such automatic weapons, and riot
police do not carry arms, but rather tear-gas launchers, clubs and
shields,"
he explained.
The ban sparked fierce criticism within the local press, unions and
political
parties, who have urged the government to reconsider its measures.
"[His Majesty] King Abdullah flung open the door to a people's movement
which reflected Jordan's national and pan-Arab face, but with the first
security problem, with a few hooligans, the security dimension
dominated the
scene," read Al Arab Al Yawm's editorial.
. . .
The interior minister, however, countered that the factions in question
used
radio broadcasts "to incite (their) followers in Jordan to destroy and
sabotage private and public property."
Other sources said the broadcasts came from the Damascus-based Al Quds
radio, affiliated to dissident Palestinian factions such as the Popular
Front for
the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
Khleifat confirmed that 63 policemen were injured by stone-throwing
protesters and 97 people were referred to civil courts in connection
with the
riots. At least 29 police vehicles, 39 civilian cars and 13 UN cars
were
vandalised in the demonstrations, he added.
+++JORDAN TIMES 11 Oct.'00: "Jordan gives Lloyd's Register 'ultimatum' "
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
"The prime minister, who is due to visit Iraq within weeks to
improve ties
between the two Arab countries, did not provide any further
details."
"In the mid-1990s, the UN charged the London-based Lloyd's
Register
with deploying on-land teams to inspect incoming goods, notably
Iraq-
bound cargo, to stem possible violations of the crippling
sanctions on Iraq.
That move followed continued Jordanian protests against the
offshore
inspections, previously conducted by US and British naval
forces."
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EXCERPTS:
AMMAN (JT) - Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb declared on Tuesday
that Jordan had given Lloyd's Register inspectors of Iraq-bound cargo
an
"ultimatum" to end their costly mission in the Kingdom.
. . .
The prime minister, who is due to visit Iraq within weeks to improve
ties
between the two Arab countries, did not provide any further details.
Official sources said on Sept. 11 that the government had asked the UN
to
end the time-consuming and costly Lloyd's Register inspections that
hinder
the flow of goods to the Kingdom and Iraq.
{IMRA: Can the "ultimatum" be effective if not accepted by teh
UN?}
. . .
In the mid-1990s, the UN charged the London-based Lloyd's Register with
deploying on-land teams to inspect incoming goods, notably Iraq-bound
cargo, to stem possible violations of the crippling sanctions on Iraq.
That move followed continued Jordanian protests against the offshore
inspections, previously conducted by US and British naval forces.
{IMRA: Will US and Britain return to at-sea inspections
if Lloyd's leaves?}
Over and above the stumbling block to trade and shipments, Lloyd's
inspections cost the treasury $2.5 million each year, according to
official
statistics.
+++JORDAN TIMES 11 Oct.'00:" The message of Palestinian youngsters and
Israeli skinheads", by Rami G. Khouri {IMRA:Jordan's most prominent
English-lanuage
journalist. This mode is an expansion on the approach Khouri used
against the US
following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.}
QUOTES FROM THE TEXT:
"the most accomplished living professional killer of Arabs and
predator of Palestinian
rights marched with his Roman legion of troops to lay claim to
the single most
powerful Palestinian symbol of national and religious identity in
Palestine."
"Barak, Goliath-like, reacted with exaggerated unnecessary,
ungainly and ultimately
ineffective military force to the Palestinian reaction to the
Sharon visit."
"Barak over-reacted to Hizbollah's abduction of three Israeli
soldiers ... threatening
another futile round of massive Israeli military attacks against
Lebanon."
"Barak used precisely the wrong approach last Saturday night when
he publicly gave
the Palestinians an ultimatum to "stop the violence" in two days,
or else the Israelis would
consider the peace process ended."
"Vigilante terror groups that have rampaged against Palestinian
individuals, homes,
mosques, churches and property."
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EXCERPTS:
... the impressive Palestinian will to confront the Israeli army with
stones and burning tires,
combined with the outbreak of widespread violence among Jewish and Arab
Israeli citizens within Israel, should probably be read as a sign of a
historic
shift in the current political negotiating postures of both sides. When
it
resumes, the peace process will be significantly different from what
we've
known to date.
. . .
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak claims that Yasser Arafat can stop
the
violence with a single order to his people, but this is neither
credible nor
correct. . . . Barak had impressed many in the Arab world as a man who
seemed willing to make the tough decisions needed to achieve a fair
peace
. . . the last two weeks revealed to us in the Arab world that he
remains
more of a military commander turned expedient politician than a
national
statesman.
Barak made five serious policy mistakes ... First, he allowed Ariel
Sharon to
make his provocative trip to Al Haram Al Sharif (which the Israelis
call their
`Temple Mount'). That visit sparked intense... anger because the most
accomplished
living Israeli professional killer of Arabs and predator of Palestinian
rights
marched with his Roman legion of troops to lay claim to the single most
powerful Palestinian symbol of national and religious identity in
Palestine.
Second, Barak, Goliath-like, reacted with exaggerated, unnecessary,
ungainly, and ultimately ineffective military force to the Palestinian
reaction to
the Sharon visit. He could have quelled the Palestinian street
demonstrations
and rock-throwing with means other than bringing out the big guns and
shooting at youngsters. He chose the tanks, rockets, and heavy
artillery
perhaps because Zionism as a national movement has not yet figured out
any
other way of dealing with Palestinian kids who wave freedom's
untattered
flag. The UN Security Council condemnation last week of Israel's
military
excesses was a clear sign of how the world condemned the Israeli
military
response to the Palestinian spontaneous revolt for liberty, equality,
dignity,
and national integrity.
Third, Barak over-reacted to Hizbollah's abduction of three Israeli
soldiers ...
threatening another futile round of massive Israeli military attacks
against
Lebanon. What more can Israel do... ? Attack Lebanese civilians with
nuclear
bombs? Massive military retaliation against Lebanon, driven by Israeli
frustration
and a bloody thirst for blind revenge, is both a failed political
policy option and
an affront to the powerful moral dictates of Judaism itself.
Fourth, Barak used precisely the wrong approach last Saturday night
when
he publicly gave the Palestinians an ultimatum to `stop the violence'
in two
days, or else the Israelis would consider the peace process ended. This
kind
of heavy-handed, arrogant, condescending, and slightly racist Israeli
approach to conflict-resolution with the Palestinians merely
perpetuates the
very grievance that has driven the Palestinians to repeated revolt: . .
.
In the midst of a Palestinian revolt against Zionism's penchant for
colonial
swagger, the two Israeli chief swaggerers (Sharon and Barak) come out
with
obtuse, record-setting performances in the Provocation and Arrogance
Department.
Fifth, Barak has not taken any significant measures yet to rein in the
Israeli
vigilante terror groups that have rampaged against Palestinian
individuals,
homes, mosques, churches, and property.... both the crazed Israeli
settlers in
the occupied West Bank and Gaza along with Jewish Israelis within the
1948
borders of Israel are engaging in what can only be termed Zionist
hooliganism
and death squads. While the Israeli army shoots Palestinian children in
the streets,
Israeli civilian skinheads attack the homes and holy sites of
Palestinians throughout
the land, and the Israeli security forces are often nowhere to be seen.
. . .
... resuming the Oslo process talks on their previous trajectory is
unlikely to achieve
a fair and lasting peace, because the Oslo approach remains defined by
Zionist
political arrogance, Israeli military heavy-handedness, Palestinian
subservience and subjugation, and American acquiescence in all of these
unfortunate phenomena. The Palestinians are rebelling simultaneously
against
the heavy, lingering weight of Israeli oppression, the threat of
Zionist
predatory claims to Palestinian religious and national symbols in
Jerusalem,
and the frustration of the meager results of the Oslo peace process.
. . .
But that process of making peace now needs to be redefined following
this
explosion of anger and indignity; the next phase of the peace process
must
be predicated on equal national rights for both peoples, not the
quasi-colonial
disequilibrium that now defines the peace talks and the fighting on the
ground.
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