The French president is due to meet the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, on Wednesday to discuss the Palestinian and Israeli “two-state solution”. But before his visit, residents denounced a pro-Israeli international policy.
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This is what we call being persona non grata. After his visits to Tel Aviv and Ramallah, French President Emmanuel Macron landed on Tuesday evening, October 24, in Amman, the capital of Jordan, where he is due to meet King Abdullah II. But before this visit, demonstrations broke out in the Jordanian streets where the population opposed the French president’s remarks.
Among the approximately 1,000 demonstrators gathered Tuesday evening in the heart of Amman, the former parliamentarian of the Jordanian Workers’ Party. She listened to Emmanuel Macron’s speech on Tuesday October 24 in Israel.
She is very shocked by the French president’s comparison between Hamas and the Islamic State. “He said that this war against Hamas was a fight against terrorism. And for me, Hamas is not a terrorist group, it is a Palestinian resistance group against the Israeli occupation” proclaims the young woman.
Hate brandished against the international coalition
Signs bearing the image of Joe Biden, the President of the United States and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, are brandished by several demonstrators in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman. For Heyek Abou Badr, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, France will do nothing against American and Israeli interests: “All these politicians play a double role. They have no feelings. Their project is clear: they want a new Middle East and eliminate Palestine and its history.”
On the contrary, a Jordanian writer wants to maintain hope that France will exert all its weight so that a lasting Palestinian state can exist: “France is a democratic state with institutions. Its foreign policy must be in line with human rights. We all know that Israel is an occupying state.”
“If French policy is not moving in the direction of human rights, it must change.”
Jordanian writerat franceinfo
The French president is expected by the king at 11 a.m., Wednesday October 24. They must in particular mention the reactivation of the “political process” with a view to a “two-state solution”Palestinian and Israeli, living in peace and security side by side.