Jerusalem unite the Jordanians ... and an unprecedented mobilization for its victory

Hadeel Al Rawabdeh - Amman

On their holiday, the Jordanians went to the area of ​​Suweima, 1.5 km from the Dead Sea in the west of the country, to participate in a mass rally, expressing their anger at the encroachment of occupied Jerusalem.

Because the issue of Jerusalem is full of the hearts and minds of Jordanians, their concerns have been minimized. Their processions in more than 85 gathering points in all the governorates and villages of the Kingdom took place on Friday afternoon to participate in the "Al-Quds Al-Nasr" festival organized by the Muslim Brotherhood.

The festival aims at "emphasizing the national position in defending the holy city and its Arab and Islamic identity, rejecting the deal of the century and any political settlement aimed at eliminating the Palestinian issue on the Zionist-American scale," Al-Jazeera Net, head of the preparatory committee of the festival, said.

For his part, the General Inspector of the Muslim Brotherhood, Engineer Abdul Hamid Al-Thunibat in his opening speech, stressed the unity of the Jordanian position officially and popularly, considering that Jordan spearheaded in the face of the deal of the century and the protection of Jerusalem and the right of return.

Not for sale
The Secretary-General of the Islamic Action Front, Murad Al-Adayla, said that Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa are not for sale, and that defending them is a defense of Jordan and its cities.

The popular campaigns are followed by a solid popular stance that unites all shades of the Jordanian political spectrum, Muslim and Christian, conservative and liberal, right and left, pro-government and opposition.

This comes as a result of talk about conspiracies over Jerusalem's Hashemite trusteeship, which was confirmed in an agreement signed between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah II in 2013 under the name of "Protecting the Holy Places in Jerusalem."

Support rallies
Jordan is witnessing support rallies in support of the King's position in occupied Jerusalem in the cities of Balqa, Zarqa, Mafraq, Irbid, Karak, Madaba and Ajloun, after he spoke frankly about his pressure to settle the Palestinian cause. He stressed that Jerusalem is a red line for himself and the Jordanians.

The participants from all the youth, sports, clan, party and official groups carried signs that included what became known as the three "monarchies of the king": neither for resettlement nor for the alternative homeland, nor for abandoning Jerusalem. They chanted "No to the alternative homeland" and "Jerusalem the eternal capital of Palestine."

The Jordanian clans scrambled to get around the king in a single trench by issuing statements and holding festivals. They announced that they stood behind the king in defending the city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the face of repeated attacks and violations, and fierce campaigns to Judaize him and consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The Jordanian universities also organized support rallies and speeches in which thousands of students participated. The ceremony included "playing with us all", playing military music and singing poetic poems about the history of Jordan and Palestine and the positions of the Hashemites who advocate for the Palestinian cause.

With candles
Hundreds of Jordanians participated in the inscription "Jerusalem Arab" from the nearest plateau overlooking the city of Salt through the lighting of 22,000 six-kilometer lamps in the heritage pigeon street and the ring road of the city, which set a new world record in terms of the number of candles lit.

The candles that lit the Jerusalem sky from Salt bear a message that the city, which was present in the popular protests, united with the country's leadership in its firm stance on the Arab identity of Jerusalem and rejected the so-called "century deal", according to observers.

Historical Link
In this context, former Prime Minister Dr. Abdul Raouf Al-Rawabdeh believes that the meeting between the King and the Jordanian people in all its spectrum is due to the belief in the Palestinian issue and Jerusalem and their harmony in their conscience and conscience.

"The King of Jordan has expressed the truth about what is going on in the hearts of Jordanians. The Palestinian issue is based on two states and the existence of an independent sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, rejecting any change to Jerusalem specifically and preserving the refugees' right to return," he said.

On the historical relations between the two countries, Al-Rawabdeh told Al-Jazeera Net that "the link between Jordan and Palestine is transient to the borders of geography, history, language and religion. It is a historical bond and popular cohesion. Palestine is a central Jordanian issue from its beginnings and continued with Hashemite trusteeship."

Since the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, the Jordanian army has been involved in maintaining the West Bank and Jerusalem. The relationship throughout the period of unification and the following has remained an original relationship affecting Jordan.