A quarter of a century after the peace treaty, the Israeli-Jordanian "cold war" is its diplomatic field

Ayman Fadilat-Amman

Jordanian-Israeli relations mark the 25th anniversary of the Wadi Araba peace treaty at its worst. Analysts describe the status quo as a "Cold War." According to them, the treaty has only undermined confidence in official institutions and eroded their popularity.

According to analysts, the Jordanians are becoming scarce on social media from official condemnations of the repeated Israeli violations and violations against Jordan, whether it harms the Hashemite guardianship of Jerusalem or the arrest of Jordanians at the border crossings.

Diplomatic language
On the other hand, observers believe that the official policy "manages the file dealing with the Israeli government rationally" in light of the military imbalance between the two countries, and the US and European support for Israel at the expense of the countries of the region and the region.

Political analyst Fares Brizat told Al Jazeera Net that "the treaty after 25 years there is no reason for optimism, and the relationship with Israel is moving in a negative direction, and a candidate for further complications."

He added that "the continuation of the peace treaty or not should be the criterion in which the interests of the homeland, and the entire Jordanian-Israeli peace process undergo a comprehensive assessment of the political, economic, diplomatic, security and military aspects, and any military confrontation will be the results for Israel and will represent a political and security suicide for Jordan."

Increasing opposition
According to al-Bureizat, there has been a popular rejection of the treaty since its signing, and Israeli practices and violations of the treaty increase the rate of anger, and thus gain more opposition supporters.

The results of a poll conducted by the Nama Center for Strategic Consulting last August demanded 70% of Jordanians to reduce political and diplomatic relations with Israel, while 75% called for the reduction of military and security relations.

Despite a peace treaty with Israel, the majority of Jordanians (86%) do not trust it and consider the Middle East region to be unsafe and unstable, blaming Israel for instability and violence in the region.

The possibility of confrontation
For his part, political analyst Hassan al-Barari believes that the official Jordanian position did not have options to respond to repeated Israeli breaches of the treaty, due to regional circumstances and the full American bias towards Israel and the exposure of Jordan back to the Arab world, in light of the rush of Gulf countries to establish relations with Israel.

Al-Barari is likely in his talk to Al-Jazeera Net, "There is a clash between Amman and Tel Aviv at any time, because Jordan insists on a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, while Israel is not interested in this solution and has other unilateral solutions, and the American mediator of the peace process is fully biased to the Israeli vision, and unfortunately the position "The Arab official is not interested in resolving the Palestinian issue."

Resistance to normalization
Since its signing, the Wadi Araba treaty has been met by trade union, party and popular committees to resist normalization with Israel.It started its work from the committees to resist normalization in professional unions.Then, the Higher Committee for the Protection of the Homeland and Confronting Normalization was formed by professional unions and political parties.An anti-Zionist association was formed in Jordan.

According to activist Maysara Malas, these committees were able to "consolidate the idea that the printing press with the Zionist entity popular pariah," and these committees succeeded in reducing economic cooperation and trade with the Israeli side.

Malas pointed out that Israel did not like this new reality, "resisting normalization and holding printers accountable." It pushed two printers to file complaints against these committees. A decision was issued by the Bureau of Law Interpretation in 2002 that these committees are illegal and contrary to the law.

Malas adds to Al Jazeera Net that "the state put all its weight in the face of resistance committees of normalization in response to Israeli pressure, and the members of the Committee against the normalization of resistance in the syndicate of professional unions in 2001 for two months, and in 2002 arrested members of the Committee against the normalization of the Engineers Association."

Ghee and honey's promises to sign the Wadi Araba treaty have not been fulfilled for Jordanians for 25 years.In contrast, Israel has provided Jordan with quantities of sewage for drinking.He continues to suffer both economically and livelihoods and internal and external problems, without achieving the peace treaty's gains, observers said.