Fayez reaffirms Jordan’s stance in support of Palestinian cause

AMMAN — Jordan will continue to support the Palestinian people in their relentless endeavours for freedom, independence and realising their national goals of establishing an independent, viable Palestinian state on their national soil with East Jerusalem as its capital, Senate President Faisal Fayez said on Monday. 

In a statement marking the 103rd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Fayez added that the international community's “silence” on the longest occupation in the human history that the Palestinian people is still facing is "shameful" as Israel continues neglecting international legitimacy resolutions, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

The international community, which calls for freedom, justice and the right to self-determination, should shoulder its legal and moral responsibilities to enable the Palestinian people to realise their rights and stop the brutal attacks that Israel is perpetrating against them, the Senate president noted.

He also added that the international community's “silence” on the war crimes being perpetrated against the Palestinian people is a “stain on the world community". 

Fayez stressed that “the whole world must expose Israeli actions, exert all possible pressures to push Israel to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state and implement international resolutions on the Palestinian issue”.

He also said that the Balfour Declaration led to the uprooting of the Palestinian Arab people from their lands, displacing them and exposing them to the most horrific and cruel forms of injustice.

The Senate president also urged the world's major powers and countries in sponsorship of the peace process to work jointly to end the suffering of the Palestinian people and enable them to realise their legitimate rights. 

Fayez also praised His Majesty King Abdullah's efforts, as part of the Hashemite Custodianship, in protecting Jerusalem, maintaining its Christian and Islamic holy sites and preventing its Judaisation.