“I am Yahweh; that is My Name! I will not give My glory to anyone else, nor share My praise with carved idols.” (Isaiah 42: 8)
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Caroline Glick—From Amman to Jerusalem:
Five months ago, 28 year old Ziv Moyal, an Israeli security officer at Israel’s embassy in Amman, was stabbed in his apartment by a Jordanian assailant, whom he shot and killed.
Moyal also accidentally killed his Jordanian landlord, who was present on the scene.
In the immediate aftermath of the incident, incited by the state-controlled media, the Jordanian public was whipped into an anti-Israel frenzy. In short order, a mob surrounded the embassy, to which Moyal and another 20 Israeli diplomats fled immediately after the shooting.
For 24 hours, those Israeli diplomats, led by Ambassador Einat Schlein were besieged.
Despite the fact that they are barred from doing so under the Vienna Convention, Jordanian authorities demanded to interrogate Moyal. By refusing to enable the diplomats to safely return to Israel until Moyal submitted to questioning, they effectively held Schlein and her colleagues hostage.
It took the intervention of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the life-threatening crisis. The price Jordan’s King Abdullah II exacted for the freedom and protection of Israel’s diplomatic personnel was high. In exchange for their safe passage, Netanyahu agreed to permit Jordanian officials to be present during Moyal’s questioning by Israeli officials. He also succumbed to Abdullah’s demand that Israeli police remove metal detectors from the Temple Mount, which had been deployed a few days before amid wide-scale violence by Muslim worshipers against Jews.
Since its diplomats were evacuated in July, Israel’s embassy has been closed. Jordan has refused to permit Schlein to return to her duties and has insisted that Moyal be tried for the death of his assailant and his landlord.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Over the years, I’ve talked with lots of Jordanian officials in Jerusalem. Any problem that needs to be solved eventually winds up in Jordan’s lap because Palestinians in Israel don’t have the skills required to solve the problems they create.
I wish I could say that all of my encounters with Jordanian officials have been positive, but I can’t. Consistently, their attitudes toward Israel are negative. It’s obvious. Once they know that you support Israel, their attitude toward you is negative.
I’m not belligerent, but I don’t hide the fact that I support Israel.
Jordan is about 65% Palestinian. King Abdullah has a difficult job, and as far as I am concerned, he’s not doing it well. He can’t resist pandering to the Palestinian masses in Jordan.
That said, Abdullah is the king, and he’ll be the king until he dies. The U.S. and Israel have no choice but to deal with him.
That could be a problem when President Trump announces that he’s moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I think we can count on King Abdullah to do the wrong thing. We should know for sure very soon.
Bottom line: I don’t trust King Abdullah to do the right thing when it counts. His father, King Hussein, had a similar problem. That said, King Abdullah does a good job of restraining the Islamist terrorists in his midst, and there are plenty of them. That’s a positive.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
