#ayman safadi

[claraameliapond]

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi: "Israel has created an amount of hatred that will haunt this region, that will define generations to come- and therefore it's hurting its own people as much as it's hurting everyone else in the region. This is a war that cannot be won. Israel has already suffered a strategic defeat. "

Decolonise Palestine

A two state solution doesn't work because it never has, Israel has never agreed to one and don't want to share. They are not a peaceful immigrant population. It is not their land.

The only way peace can be properly achieved and ensured is to decolonise Palestine so Palestine is properly free forever. 🇵🇸🍉🫒🍉🇵🇸🫒🍉🇵🇸

[vyorei]

[kitchen-light]

Cannot stop thinking about the press conference by Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, held on January 16, 2023 (with the Australian Foreign Minister, Penny Wong) where he said:

"Israel is taking 2.3 million Palestinians hostage in Gaza, in addition to the illegal unilateral measures that it is inflicting on Palestinians in the West Bank."

Link to the video (shared on X) here

[channeledhistory]

[...] Dann allerdings sagt sie, sich auch mit einer Handbewegung auf ihren jordanischen Amtskollegen beziehend, Folgendes: „[…] möchte zugleich unterstreichen das, was mein jordanischer Kollege auch gesagt hat: dass die Situation im Nahen Osten vor allen Dingen deutlich gemacht hat, dass das präzendenzlose Vorgehen von Iran, das wir aufs Schärfste verurteilt haben, auch katastrophal ist für die Menschen in Gaza, es unterstreicht erneut, dass dem Iran mit keimsten [sic] seinem Agieren irgendwie die Menschen im Mittleren und Nahen Osten wichtig sind, sondern sein Ziel der Angriff auf Israel ist […].“ Das aber hatte ihr jordanischer Amtskollege nicht gesagt. Tatsächlich legt Baerbock an dieser Stelle dem jordanischen Außenminister ihre eigenen Worte in den Mund. Sollte die deutsche Außenministerin darauf vertraut haben, dass Safadi aufgrund von Deutschlands finanzieller Unterstützung für die Flüchtlingslager in Jordanien über einen derartigen Vorgang einfach hinwegsehen würde? Er tat es nicht. „Ich habe gesagt“, so Safadi, „dass wir gegen Eskalation sind, dass wir für Deeskalation sind […], was den Iran betrifft, habe ich gesagt, dass Iran diesen Angriff als Antwort auf den Angriff auf sein Konsulat sieht.“ Nicht nur der Iran müsse jede weitere Eskalation stoppen, „die internationale Gemeinschaft“ müsse Druck auf die israelische Regierung ausüben, nicht weiter zu eskalieren. Unstimmigkeiten zwischen Jordanien und Iran bestreitet Safadi nicht, lehnt aber jede einseitige Betrachtungsweise ab: „Wir wissen, dass die Politik des israelischen Premierminister auf eine Ausweitung dieses Konflikts, auf einen Flächenbrand setzt.“ Auch Baerbocks Wortwahl vom „präzendenzlosen“ (beispiellosen) Vorgehen Irans greift Safadi auf und unterstellt ihr Doppelmoral: „Wir sehen einen beispiellosen Krieg in Gaza, einen beispiellosen Verstoß gegen Menschenrechte, gegen das humanitäre Völkerrecht. Wir sehen da eine klare Doppelmoral. Wenn wir über Deeskalation sprechen und sagen, der Iran dürfe nicht weiter eskalieren, müssen wir auch ansprechen, dass Israel diesen Krieg beenden muss. Das habe ich gesagt, das habe ich mehrmals gesagt. Denn das ist der Grund, es geht in erster Linie darum, was in Gaza passiert […] Wenn wir wirklich Frieden möchten, ernsthaft vom Frieden sprechen, müssen wir das Gesamtbild betrachten […]. Wir müssen die gleichen Standards anwenden, überall müssen die gleichen Standards gelten.“ Von alledem war in den Tagesthemen am Abend keine Rede. Während Israel über einen Gegenschlag berate, heißt es in dem entsprechenden Beitrag der Tagesthemen, warnen „Israels Partner“ vor einer Eskalation. Gezeigt wird nun ein kurzer Ausschnitt aus der Presskonferenz von Safadi und Baerbock,, man erfährt, dass sich die deutsche Außenpolitikerin „heute mit ihren jordanischen Amtskollegen [traf], bevor sie nach Israel reist“, Baerbock kündigt an, Israel die „volle Solidarität Deutschlands“ zu vermitteln und Gespräche darüber zu führen, wie eine weitere Eskalation zu verhindern ist. Im darauffolgenden Schaltgespräch mit dem ARD-Korrespondenten aus Tel Aviv wird der Begriff der „Solidarität“ dann aufgegriffen und u.a. mit  einer kunstvollen Anspielung auf das Treffen mit dem jordanischen Außenminister (Baerbock hat für Israel eine „Nachricht im Gepäck“) versehen: ARD-Korrespondent: „Na, sie [die deutsche Außenministerin] hat auf jeden Fall die Nachricht im Gepäck, dass die Lage für Israel auch ihre positive Seite hat, gerade in den letzten Monaten ist das Land ja zunehmend isoliert gewesen wegen der Kriegsführung im Gazastreifen. Und jetzt gab es bei dem Angriff des Iran doch große, große Solidarität, auch übrigens von arabischen Staaten, die haben auch mitgeholfen in der Region, einige Staaten aus der arabischen Welt, den Angriff aus dem Iran abzuwehren. Hier redet man schon von neuen Allianzen…“ [...]

[head-post]

Israel must let Gazans return to their homes, Jordanian Ayman Safadi says

Israel should allow displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to return to their homes, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Thursday.

Safadi was speaking at a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Amman, where he said it was necessary to end the war in Gaza and prevent an escalation of violence in the region as a whole. Safadi noted:

“With regard to the current priorities, they are clear: ending the aggression in Gaza, letting in sufficient permanent humanitarian aid to all parts of the Strip, south and north, stopping the destruction, and working immediately for the return of displaced Gazans to their areas and homes.”

Read more HERE

[plitnick]

Biden Mideast agenda comes crashing down in Gaza

Joe Biden’s attempt to ignore the Palestinian people has brought the worst calamity on both Israelis and Palestinians since 1948 down, and civilians on both sides have been the overwhelming majority of those who have paid the price. In addition, while Biden, MBS, and the Abraham Accords countries try desperately to salvage their apartheid-dictatorship alliance and the shiny new guns and warplanes…

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meeting Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi today, 3 July 2023

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad also held a meeting with al-Safadi

[intersectionalpraxis]

Jordan's minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi, announces that his country backs South Africa's genocide case against Israel in the ICJ. He added that the Jordanian government is working on a legal file to follow up on the case. Turkey, Malaysia, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) had announced that they back the case too. [@/ QudsNen on X. 01/05/24.]

[probablyasocialecologist]

More than half of Iran’s weapons were destroyed by U.S. aircraft and missiles before they ever reached Israel. In fact, by commanding a multinational air defense operation and scrambling American fighter jets, this was a U.S. military triumph.   The extent of the U.S. military operation is unbeknownst to the American public, but the Pentagon coordinated a multination, regionwide defense extending from northern Iraq to the southern Persian Gulf on Saturday. During the operation, the U.S., U.K., France, and Jordan all shot down the majority of Iranian drones and missiles. In fact, where U.S. aircraft originated from has not been officially announced, an omission that has been repeated by the mainstream media. Additionally, the role of Saudi Arabia is unclear, both as a base for the United States and in terms of any actions by the Saudi military.

[...]

Israel’s statement that it shot down the majority of Iranian “cruise missiles” is probably an exaggeration. According to U.S. military sources and preliminary reporting, U.S. and allied aircraft shot down the majority of drones and cruise missiles. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that the Royal Air Force Typhoons intercepted “a number” of Iranian weapons over Iraqi and Syrian airspace. The Jordanian government has also hinted that its aircraft downed some Iranian weapons. “We will intercept every drone or missile that violates Jordan’s airspace to avert any danger. Anything posing a threat to Jordan and the security of Jordanians, we will confront it with all our capabilities and resources,” Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said during an interview on the Al-Mamlaka news channel. French fighters also shot down some drones and possibly cruise missiles.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Arab leaders decrying the deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the Israel-Hamas war pushed for an immediate cease-fire Saturday even as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that such a move would be counterproductive and could encourage more violence by the militant group. After an afternoon of talks with Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi, Qatari and Emirati diplomats and a senior Palestinian official, Blinken stood side by side at a line of podiums with his counterparts from Jordan and Egypt [...]

The dissonance in the messages was evident. Nonetheless, the joint news conference between ministers from the Arab world and the top diplomat from Israel’s closest ally and numerous photo opportunities contrasted with Blinken’s time in Tel Aviv on Friday, when Blinken met alone with reporters after closed-door talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Arab ministers repeatedly called for the fighting to stop now and condemned Israel’s war tactics.

“We cannot accept the justification as considered as the right of self-defense, collective punishment” of Palestinians in Gaza, Egypt’s Sameh Shoukreh said. “This cannot be a legitimate self-defense at all.” Blinken held firm to the U.S. position that a cease-fire would harm Israel’s right and obligation to defend its citizens after the surprise attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 across southern Israel. He said the Biden administration’s commitment to Israel’s right to self-defense remains unwavering. “It is our view now that a cease-fire would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did,” Blinken said.

He said the U.S. supports “humanitarian pauses” in Israel’s operations to allow for improved aid flows [...] Blinken’s colleagues from Jordan and Egypt did not think that went far enough.

In another direct contrast, Arab officials said it was far too soon to discuss one of Blinken’s main agenda items, Gaza’s postwar future. Stopping the killing and restoring steady humanitarian aid are immediate that must be addressed first, they said. “What happens next? How can we even entertain what will happen next?” said Jordan’s Ayman al-Safadi. “We don’t have all the variables to even start thinking about that.” He added, “We need to get our priorities straight.” But as they appeared before news cameras and reporters, the three men lent at least an appearance of solidarity. [...]

From Beirut, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told reporters that Blinken “should stop the aggression and should not come up with ideas that cannot be implemented.” Hamdan said the future of Gaza will be decided by the Palestinians and that Arab foreign ministers should tell the American diplomat that “he cannot build an Arab coalition that is against the Palestinian people.”

Blinken’s first meeting in Jordan was with Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati,[...]

Blinken thanked Mikati for his leadership “in preventing Lebanon from being pulled into a war that the Lebanese people do not want,” the U.S. State Department said. Blinken then met with the foreign minister of Qatar, whose country has emerged as the most influential interlocutor with Hamas. Qatar has been key to negotiating the limited release of hostages held by Hamas as well as persuading Hamas to allow foreign citizens to leave Gaza and cross into Egypt. Blinken also held talks with the head of the U.N. agency in charge of assisting Palestinian refugees, thanking Phillipe Lazzarini for his group’s “extraordinary work every single day as a lifeline to Palestinians in Gaza and a great, a great cost.” The agency has seen about 70 staffers killed in the war so far and is running critically low on necessary supplies such as food, medicine and fuel.[...]

While in Amman, Blinken will see Jordan’s King Abdullah II, whose country has recalled its ambassador to Israel and told Israel’s envoy not to return to Jordan until the Gaza crisis was over. On Sunday, Blinken will travel Turkey meetings with President Recep Tayyep Erdogan and other top officials on Monday, the State Department said. Turkey on Saturday followed Jordan’s lead and announced it had recalled its ambassador to Israel. Arab states are resisting American suggestions that they play a larger role in the Mideast crisis, expressing outrage at the civilian toll of the Israeli military operations but believing Gaza to be a problem largely of Israel’s own making.[...]

Still ideas on Gaza’s future governance are few and far between. Blinken and other U.S. officials are offering a vague outline that it might include a combination of a revitalized Palestinian Authority, which has not been a factor in Gaza since 2007, with international organizations and potentially a peacekeeping force. U.S. officials acknowledge these ideas have been met with a distinct lack of enthusiasm.

4 Nov 23

[vyorei]

Jordan and France had a chat

[decolonize-the-left]

Here are the day's main developments. At least 82 Palestinians have been killed and 98 injured in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, according to the latest figures from the Gaza health ministry. At least 32,705 Palestinians have been killed and 75,190 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October. Truce talks between Israel and Hamas will resume on Sunday in Cairo, Egypt's Al Qahera News TV reported on Saturday, citing a security source. To mark the 48th anniversary of Land Day on Saturday afternoon, thousands of Palestinians marched through the town of Deir Hanna. On 30 March 1976, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as thousands of Palestinians in Israel's northern Galilee region rose up against the Israeli expropriation and occupation of Palestinian lands. The event became known as Land Day and a symbol of the national struggle that unites Palestinians around the world. According to a statement issued by the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC), Israel has seized 27 sq km of land in the occupied West Bank since 7 October. World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said around 9,000 patients urgently needed to be evacuated from Gaza for lifesaving treatment abroad. These patients had suffered wounds in Israeli bombing, or needed cancer treatment, kidney dialysis or treatment for other chronic conditions, Tedros wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Other key developments included: The British government has received advice from its own lawyers stating that Israel has breached international humanitarian law in Gaza but has failed to make it public, according to advice received from its own lawyers, according to a leaked recording obtained by the UK's Observer newspaper. At least five people were killed and dozens injured by gunfire during an aid delivery in Gaza. The incident happened after thousands of people gathered in the Kuwait roundabout in northern Gaza, awaiting the arrival of 15 food aid trucks. Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Israel had intensified its shelling on the eastern parts of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The air strikes targeted al-Mughraqa in the north of Khan Younis. UN peacekeeping mission Unifil confirmed that four of its personnel were injured in an explosion in the southern Lebanese border town of Rmeish. A group of around 20 relatives of Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Saturday that the "famine" in Gaza could be dealt with in a short time if Israel opened the land crossings for aid to enter.

[lughatul-qurania]

Israeli army has launched multiple air strikes on Rafah, hours after Palestinian resistance group Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal 🇵🇸💔

The latest bombardment was immediately condemned by neighbour Jordan whose top diplomat Ayman Safadi accused hawkish Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu of jeopardising the truce deal by bombing Rafah.

Amman also asked Israeli ally US to intervene and stop a “new massacre” in Rafah. Ahead of the strikes, Israeli planes dropped leaflets threatening to invade eastern Rafah and demanding that civilians flee the area sheltering some 1.5 million Palestinians.

[good-old-gossip]

In case if it wasn't clear to anyone

Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Tuesday the international community should stop Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from "stealing" attention away from Gaza by escalating his confrontation with Iran.

In remarks during a press conference with his German counterpart in Berlin, Safadi said Iran had responded to the attack against its consulate and had announced that it did "did not want to escalate further".

"We are against escalating. Netanyahu wants to draw attention away from Gaza and focus on his confrontation with Iran," Safadi added.

[claraameliapond]

Ayman Safadi of Jordan to the ICJ : "The occupation is unlawful. It is inhumane. It must end.

Yet Israel has been systematically consolidating the occupation that is blatantly denying the Palestinians' right to self determination.

It's illegal unilateral measures are creating new facts on the ground that are killing all prospects for peace.

Settlements, illegal under international law, are growing in numbers and are spreading farther in occupied Palestinian land.

The number of settlers has grown from 280,000 in 1993 when the Oslo accords were signed, to over 700,000 today. Nearly a 150% increase.

Settler terrorism is a growing evil, it's victims , the innocent Palestinians, their homes and their livelihoods. "

Decolonise Palestine

[jordanianroyals]

13 October 2023: King Abdullah II, receiving US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, stressed the need to open humanitarian corridors to allow for the delivery of medical and relief aid into Gaza, while protecting civilians and working to end the escalation and the war on Gaza.

He said the work of international agencies in the Gaza Strip must not be hindered, to enable them to perform their humanitarian duties, stressing the importance of stepping up international efforts to end the escalation in Gaza and its surroundings and prevent a further deterioration of the situation and its spillover into the West Bank.

His Majesty warned of any attempt to forcibly displace the Palestinians from all the Palestinian Territories or to cause their internal displacement, calling for preventing a spillover of the crisis into neighbouring countries and the exacerbation of the refugee issue.

The King warned of inflicting collective punishment against Gaza residents, urging the protection of innocent civilians on all sides, in line with shared human values, international law, and international humanitarian law. (Source: Petra)

His Majesty reiterated the need to create a political horizon to guarantee the prospects for just and comprehensive peace on the basis of the two-state solution, and prevent the eruption of more cycles of violence and war in the region.

The King stressed the need to preserve the historical and legal status quo in Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, noting the continued efforts to safeguard these holy sites under the Hashemite Custodianship.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Director of the Office of His Majesty Jafar Hassan, General Intelligence Department Director Maj. Gen. Ahmad Husni, and US Ambassador to Jordan Yael Lempert attended the meeting.

Earlier, Safadi had met with Blinken and discussed efforts to end the dangerous escalation and ensure the provision of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.