The Jordanian Foreign Ministry expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli Minister of Finance’s use of a map of “Israel” that includes the borders of the Kingdom of Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories
After the Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, ascended a podium on which the so-called “Map of the Land of Israel” is located, with the annexation of Jordan, to deliver a speech in Paris, Jordan’s official movement protested the minister’s provocation of the Jordanian people and government.
“There is no such thing as the Palestinian people,” Smotrich said, during his speech to the participants in the evening to commemorate Kupfer, adding that “this (the Palestinian people) is nothing but an invention dating back less than 100 years.”
For its part, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed today, Monday, its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s use, during his participation in an event held Sunday in Paris, of a map of “Israel” that includes the borders of the Kingdom of Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories.
In an official statement, a copy of which was received by Al-Arabiya.net, the ministry said that the minister’s behavior represented “reckless incitement and a violation of international norms and the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty.”
The official spokesman for the ministry, Sinan al-Majali, said that his country condemns “the racist, inciting and extremist statements made by the extremist Israeli minister towards the brotherly Palestinian people and their right to exist, and their historical rights in their independent and sovereign state on the Palestinian national soil, and warned of the danger of these extremist racist actions.” according to his words.
The ministry called on the international community to “condemn the Israeli minister’s extremist and inflammatory actions and statements, which also represent a violation of human values and principles.”
In turn, an official source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs confirmed to Al-Arabiya.net that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Israeli ambassador in Amman, following the extremist racist and inflammatory statements of the Israeli Minister of Finance, and his use of a map of Israel that includes the borders of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories.
The source did not disclose what happened with the ambassador, suggesting that a letter of protest should be delivered to the Israeli government over what the Israeli minister had done in Paris.