Jordan's King, Abdullah II, is not only deceptive, he is an out-and-out liar.
by Phyllis Chesler
Jordan's King, Abdullah II, is not only deceptive, he is an out-and-out liar. In a speech he delivered yesterday in Strasbourg to the European Parliament, he claimed credit for what Jordan never did, i.e. protect the holy places of non-Muslim religions under Jordan's jurisdiction. The Hashemite Kingdom kept the area around the Western Wall as a stable and a garbage dump. They did not interfere with Yasser Arafat's continuous desecration of churches in Israel and on the West Bank better known as Yehuda and Shomron.
Although the King mentioned, in passing, the "raging war in Ukraine," described what's going on in Gaza as a "cruel (war)," and warned that the "attacks on Iran threaten a dangerous escalation of tensions," his primary focus was...Palestine!
Of course, Palestine. For those who do not know: The Hashemite Kingdom is an entirely fake monarchy, one awarded to Meccan-based Arab tribes by the British as a reward for having supported the UK in overthrowing the Ottoman Empire. Many of you may know this from the film Lawrence of Arabia, whose subject was also known as an Arab-lover and the author of the "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom."
King Abdullah II is also the son of the previous King, Hussein, who, at first funded the PLO under Yasser Arafat, but then organized a massacre of the Arabs who fled Israel in 1948. Fled--not forced out. This blood bath took place in 1970, was known as "Black September," and involved the estimated slaughter of anywhere from 3,000–25,000 "Palestinians."
King Abdullah II is the son of King Hussein's second wife, Toni Avril Gardner, born in Britain. He subsequently married Lisa Halaby, who was of Syrian-Lebanese descent and born in Washington D.C. She was his fourth wife, had to convert to Islam, and was known as Queen Noor.
What in God's name is authentically and indigenously royal about this bunch?