Air Jordan – not
Regarding “Jordan lashes out at Israel for dispute” (March 14), as if we needed another example of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s weakness, we have the pathetic example of that pipsqueak nation, Jordan, forbidding our prime minister from flying over their barren sand dunes and mountains because they didn’t get their way – even though they broke the rules we had agreed upon.
This practically failed state with no real economy teeters on the edge of existence and continues only because Israel guarantees their borders. Do we benefit? Of course, but they benefit much more. In the meantime, they show their gratitude by reneging on a land deal, insulting as at every opportunity and being only slightly friendlier than Hamas.
Now we have the galactic chutzpa of their foreign minister declaring that Israel “...violated the freedom of worship.” This glaringly absurd hypocrisy is illustrated by Jordan continuing to forbid such freedom for Jews on the Temple Mount and regularly vilifying any Jew that attempts to enjoy such freedom at our holiest site!
What should Netanyahu have done? He should have boarded the phone and told Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah that if the sky was not immediately opened, Israel would no longer provide one extra drop of water over and above that agreed to by treaty, as we have done for many years, effective immediately.
Let’s face it; Netanyahu is not the fearless leader he thinks he is. He is afraid of the haredim, the Arabs, the Bedouin and the settlers. He refuses to reign in the haredim, and takes no action against violence in Arab communities and the never-ending Bedouin of land, agricultural crops, animals and equipment.
He refuses to exert Israeli sovereignty in the Negev, let alone on the Temple Mount, and effectively gives the small group of violent settlers free reign. I have had enough of this man. His remarkable achievements do not mean he is not past his “best buy” date. In reality, let’s get set for a fifth and sixth election, as his rule drags on like some bleak Russian tragedy.
YISRAEL GUTTMAN Jerusalem