Jordanian protesters demanded the closing of the US Embassy in the capital Amman on Wednesday, citing revelations from cables released by WikiLeaks that suggest covert US plans to turn Jordan into a home for Palestinians.
Scores of activists burned American and Israeli flags outside the embassy, chanting “The people want the Americans out.”
About half of Jordan’s 6 million residents are displaced Palestinians and it has long been thought that Israeli policy means to push remaining Palestinians in the West Bank into Jordan, something Jordan’s King Abdullah II has spoken out strongly against.
But Israeli encroachment wasn’t the only concern of the demonstrators who, like many of their counterparts in the Arab Spring, reject American imposition. The US has given billions in economic and security aid to the government of Jordan despite serious human rights abuses and has cooperated with the Jordanian government on rendition and torture, among other policies.
Israel has decided to close the Israeli Embassy in Jordan as members of this protest demonstration planned a corresponding “million-man march” outside the Israeli Embassy for later in the week.
Seems that the high regard which America the Benevolent would be held as democracy spread throughout the middle east isn't so…high. I'm still waiting for the US troops to be showered with flowers and hailed as saviors for ridding Iraq of it's dictator…waiting…waiting…
The money (about 2 billionn US dollars/year) that the USA gave to Jordan was bribe money for signing a peace pact with Israel. The same goes for the cash paid out for several years to Egypt. Well it looks like the younger Jordanians and Egyptians as tired of being bribed and bought. But where did the USA get these large sums of money to pay for the bribes? It was borrowed from the likes of China, Japan, the oil Emirates, etc. and now the piper must be paid. Will the USA continue to give these sums of money, including the 3 billion each year to Israel, when its homeland is approaching financial default? Probably.
Well, it's not as if Americans need SS, Medicare or anything. By voting in Republican after Republican, they signal that the payola to Israel is much more important than their own welfare. So, as they say in my neck of the woods "fuck them!"
The rats -which are used to getting free rides but have no benefit to their hosts whatsoever- seem to be escaping from the sinking imperial ship. They have more or less already left Egypt, Jordan, Turkey.
He he he. Israel's world is getting mighty small…