Thread: Arab social media is full of the filth

One difference between the Jordanian occupation (more accurately, attempted annexation) of Palestine, and the Israeli, is that the Palestinians were full citizens of Jordan- with all of the rights and obligations that entails. Some countries recognised it as a legitimate annexation (including the UK, I think)- but most did not. Indeed, the other Arab nations were some of the most vehemently opposed! This is obviously not the case with the illegal Israel occupation- which has been going on for some 50 years now, compared to the Jordanian involvement of 10. Not one country in the world has recognised it. The Palestinians have virtually no Rights on their own land.

The other difference, worth pointing out, is that the Jordanian occupation was not accompanied by the widespread violence and brutality of the ongoing Israeli occupation. Neither was it accompanied by the same degree of resistance- in fact nowhere near. Something to do with the fact the Palestinians had been granted human and legal Rights, perhaps?