2024-04-04 23:19:58
Among the 50 most famous films in the history of cinema, one is entitled “Casablanca,” starring two of the most prominent black and white screen actors (Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman). The events of the film take place during the French era in the “Rex” café, which is frequented by all kinds of customers, including the police chief. Whenever a crime occurred in the city, and the police were unable to solve it, the director summoned his men and issued one order to them: arrest all registered suspects.
Whenever the Arab interior became more difficult, and became cloaked in its impotence, backwardness, and corruption, it chanted in one voice: Come to Jordan. In the past, Lebanon was the only suspect. All issues and vices were referred to it, and demonstrations burned Beirut for the sake of liberating Palestine, supporting the Suez Canal, or supporting the Viet Cong in Vietnam. For this reason, the south was burned more than once, Beirut was dressed in spotted clothing, and was declared the capital of the armed struggle alone. Then Amman was added to the list of familiar suspects, and Arab glory reached its peak the day Saddam marched on “Kuwait on his way to Jerusalem.”
Three weak countries whose identity is questionable, are accused of their existence and declared “colonialists.” It is a coincidence that they all enjoy development and success, and adopt an acceptable political system. It is also a great coincidence that it bears, more than any other Arab group, the burdens resulting from the loss of Palestine: financially and medially.
The head of Hamas abroad is represented by Khaled Meshaal, in his call to the Jordanian people to revolution, by the police commissioner in Casablanca. Tens of thousands of people are killed in Gaza, millions are displaced, and the solution is to take to the streets of Amman. It is as if the Arab street has left something for Arabs and Arabism. Or as if the last solution is the first solution, offering thousands of sacrifices to Israel’s tyrants and thugs, from David Ben-Gurion to Benjamin Netanyahu.
One day the Jerusalem Road passes through Mount Lebanon or Jounieh, and one day it passes through Amman or Kuwait. What is strange is all the death, killing, devastation, destruction, and howling that occurs on both sides of this road. The Arabs are always divided and fighting, not against Israel, but over Palestine. It may be more appropriate for Mr. Meshaal to leave millions of Palestinians a quiet and stable haven in Jordan.
We imagined that the great catastrophe that befell Gaza this time had expanded the circle of vision, and that we had learned that filling the country with rubble and corpses does not lead to salvation. It only leads to two atrocities: the first is the extent of the barbarism that Israel can reach, and the other is the search for a solution to such a catastrophe in the 1948 Nakba camps in Amman.
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