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‘Jordan is greatest defender of Palestinian cause’

November 30, 2016 at 7:27 pm

Jordan defends the Palestinian cause the most, the head of the kingdom’s Palestine Committee, MP Yahya Saud, said today.

“We in Jordan are the closest to Palestine and its just cause, and its people and their suffering, and Jordan has always proven it defends the Palestinian cause the most,” Saud said during the first annual conference of the Association of Parliamentarians for Jerusalem. He added that Jordan will continue to carry out its responsibility to combat all of the Israeli occupation’s actions against Jerusalem’s Muslim and Christian holy sites.

The Palestinian cause needs to be reconsidered, he explained, because what is going on in the region protects Israel, therefore there needs to be greater popular Arab and regional support for the Palestinian cause, as there is a lack of support from Arab regimes. He stressed that Palestinians should not be left to defend the Islamic and Christian holy sites on their own.

He praised the steadfastness of the people of Jerusalem, adding that they continue to struggle against the occupation in the face of attempts to divide Jerusalem, temporally and spatially, denouncing the practices of the occupation forces in Jerusalem, which have displaced Jerusalemites and confiscated their homes and properties.

The event, which brings together parliamentarians from across the world, is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, and aims to shed light on the issue of Jerusalem and violations carried out against it by Israel.