Jews from coming into the city to worship. Indeed, the Jordanians "cleansed" the city and other points in the later-to-be-called West Bank from all its Jewish residents. It was Jordan that initiated the fighting of June 1967 against Israel, as a result of which Israel, in a purely defensive manner, captured the disputed territories, including Jerusalem, and in so doing repelled the Jordanian armed forces from them. Beit Knesset Hahorvah, just re-constructed and dedicated was destroyed by the Jordanians upon their taking over the Old City of Jerusalem. It was Jordan which gave up in 1988 any demands with regard to the disputed territories and in so doing "washed" its hands of them. Isn't time Jordan did some soul searching and kept silent in view of its handling Jerusalem and its people...??

IN ISRAEL, the roles are generally reversed. Here it is the Left that leads the jihadists by the hand. Take the Left's campaign against Jewish property rights in Jerusalem. In the Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood, buildings owned by Jews were seized by Jordan in 1948 after its conquest of the city. For the past decade Jewish property owners have been working through the courts to assert their rights to their buildings and remove the Arab squatters who took them over. Court after court upheld their rights to their property. And, indeed, more than a decade ago, the squatters reached a settlement in which they acknowledged the owners' property rights and the owners agreed to let the squatters stay so long as they paid rent. But when the squatters stopped paying rent, the Left pushed them to refuse to vacate the premises and to try to re-litigate the old settlement. Finally, the case made it to the Supreme Court, which also recognized the rights of the Jewish owners and ordered the police to enforce its ruling and remove the illegal squatters. The police removed the squatters last month and within hours, Jewish residents moved in, in accordance with an agreement with the buildings' lawful owners. Since they moved in, the Jews have been under constant attack from their Arab neighbors. They have been beaten and threatened with murder. In the meantime, the Left has turned the case of the illegal Arab squatters into a cause celebre. Last week, thousands of leftists staged an anti-Semitic demonstration outside the compound, demanding that the Jews be removed from their homes. The argument, of course, is that allowing Jews to exercise their legal property rights by peacefully residing in a predominantly Arab neighborhood is an unacceptable "provocation." The Arab squatters attempting to steal the property, on the other hand, are "victims." Rather than characterize the protesters as anti-Semites who are stoking violence against innocent Jews for their crime of lawfully living where they choose, the local and international media have described the demonstrators as "peace activists" and "human rights activists." For turning reality on its head and championing the cause of jihadists against the human rights of their victims, these leftist demonstrators are lionized by their comrades in the media and in the chanceries of the Western world. The State Department said it was "unacceptable" that Jews moved into their homes. So, too, the UN raced to accept the Left's claim that human rights demand the denial of Jews' property rights due to their ethnicity. Its peace process boss Richard Miron said, "I deeply deplore the totally unacceptable actions by Israel in which Israeli security forces evicted Palestinian refugee families... to allow settlers to take possession of their properties." It is a depressing commentary on our times that spokesmen of democracies and supposed champions of human rights are willing to state publicly that granting Jews the equal protection of the law is an unacceptable imposition on their bigoted neighbors. But the notion that Jews have an equal right to buy and own property in areas of Jerusalem from which they were illegally ethnically cleansed by the Jordanians in 1948 is now a great cause of the Left. And one can only assume that the jihadists will soon make their move - to the gratification of their leftist comrades - against the innocent Jews of Jerusalem. THIS BRINGS us to the events surrounding US Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Israel this week. On the first day of his visit, as a matter of routine governance, the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee approved plans to build 1,600 housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. Ramat Shlomo is a neighborhood with more than 20,000 residents located between the even more populous Ramot and Sanhedriya neighborhoods.

Jordan pillaged and occupied Jerusalem for 19 years. Jordan did not create a Palestinian state for the so-called Palestinian people, or ever once talk about it during those 19 years. Jordan did not move its capital to Jerusalem during those 19 years. Jordan is the first Arab Palestinian state, Gaza is the second. Judea & Samaria will belong to Israel forever.

Of course Jordan is against Israel's existence. At least half of Jordan is land stolen from the traditional Palestinian homeland. Israel is Israel, a land given by Ha-Shem the real landlord. Let all who try to take it be utterly destroyed and all memories of them erased forever.

please note that jerusalem was under your father's rule all the Synagogues and the Jewish cemeteries were destroyed and Jerusalem was a closed city. today jerusalem is Jewish, is open and is International, no thanks to you or your father whose life Israel saved 3 times.

Jordan is Palestine a Bedouin King ruling a 80 Palestinian population http://ralphsrant1.blogspot.com

WHO set up a wall between 1948 - 1967 in Jerusalem? WHO did not allow jewish worshippers in East-Jerusalem and decided to restrict visiting of christian worshippers to East-Jerusalem before 1967? WHO is the hypocrite here?

tried ridding jeruslam of jews. well we are now correcting histories error.

Look who's talking! The head of a state that will not allow Jews to own property in their country; the head of a country who WOULDN'T allow Jews to go to pray in their holy sites when Jerusalem was in Jordanian hands; the head of a country that was given to his family by the British as a Palestinian state ... The son of a country leader who asked Israel for help when the terrorists wanted to take over the Palestinian state of Jordan in the 70's - look up Black September. His father killed PLO followers by the thousands and sent the current king, his first born, to England so they wouldn't get their hands on him and kill him!

Abdullah has no legal interests in Jerusalem beyond those "caretaker" roles over Islamic sites Israel grants them. His father, King Hussein, divested himself of either claim or responsibility over the West Bank in, I believe, 1988. So unless he's prepared to grant Jordanian citizenship to Arabs of the West Bank, he should stay out of what's not his business. (Instead, he's stripping that citizenship from thousands of Palestinians, making them "stateless".)

Firstly the King is some made up title by British imperialists. Next, Jordan is a dictatorship and not a democracy. It was Jordan who by unlawful means occupied the west bank of the the river and part of Jerusalem - even tho War is not an aceptable means of gaining territotry. It was the same Jordan who continued shooting into Israel from its vantage points, and precipiatetd the 6 daw war in 67 - which was Israel's defensive war. It was jordan who cimmited war crimes in Jerusalem and west bank by ethnic cleansing, destruction of Jewish houses and synagogues, the occupation of land by bringing in palestinian settlers. Prior to 48 the land was occupied by Britian(illegally) and before that by Ottoman Turkey (illegally), who were preceded by arabs, byzantines, crusaders, and romans. These were all illegal occupations. The only true natives to this land are the Israelites, who had a Kingdom and sovereign nation there. All of these troubles are due to the Rabin/peres/ Beillin axis who denied Israel's own historic rights to its land.

I recognize this guy...wasn't this guy in an episode of star trek?

To change Jerusalem's Identity, lol ha, King Abdu, is Like Obama, just passing through the land,...His days are numbered as a so called King. They act like they don't know the land of Jordan belings to Jacobs kids, lol It is now just a matter of time. The USA is the Last Nation to stand against Israel like Obama has done this week in time, Well there is a change coming that they can't stop or change, I don't expect the editor to print this, like my last few remarks, but He knows i am telling them the truth according to the Word of God, Your Friend,OK? Roy C Hudson, USA 3/17/2010

in Jerusalem there is freedom of worship for all religions, which was not true when Jordanians ruled Jerusalem. Riots over the renovation of an historic synagogue shows that if Palestinians would rule in East Jerusalem, only muslims will be allowed to worship.

If you study history you will find that it is the Arabs that have used the Palestinians as an excuse to eliminate the Jews. They shall be judged by GOD for the misery they caused to their own brethren May the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob judge this world soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09pmTh64vD8&feature=fvw

you've never said, or done, anything when Jewish worshipers are stoned, while praying at the western wall ? Last time I checked, your WAQF is in charge of religious activity on the Temple Mount. Remember the wheelbarrows full of rocks, hidden in a mosque, on the mount ?

live off his graces for so long. maybe we should support jordan as the pal state and solve this problem once and for all.

Abdullah should be warned that the next time he opens his mouth, we will take back our water, and promptly deliver 3.5 million useless nasty people to his doorstep. If we only had a government with such spine or vision.

Now it's a red line? Good luck ruling over your 75% "Palestinian" problem. Maybe next time, Israel won't help you Quraysh Hashemites out next time. Running a country that calls your clan "traitor" isn't as easy as robbing pilgrims on the Hajj, is it?

What do you want to do, destroy it again like your father did and send the Old City Jews to another exile? In your dreams! "This land is our Land", This city has always been ours, we have all the proof in the world.

They attacked us , lost , and now they dare to try to give lessons . We can of course only be gratefull to Jordan for having done it in 67 . We have liberated our Jreusalem from their ILLEGAL occupation , from their destructive policy regarding everything Jewish . And of course , we have given very much to the inhabitants of those liberated territories .

Whatever happens the EU.UN, will always be on the side of the Arabs because of their own interest. Muslims are 1.4 billion,they have oil and many countries. Dont stop to build our Jerusalem Jerusalem belong to us

The Hurva synagogue was blown up by the Jordanians when captured, not preserved ( and we have a preserved - the Israelis have - mosque next door that was build by them. The Israelis did not blow it up. This synagogue is ancient and in the heart of the Jewish quarter, not muslim or christian, in an area holy to Jews. Thank fully Israel does not do what the King did to Jewish holy sites. The Mosque was captured but not harmed or damaged and return to Muslims, unlike Hurva. That is being hypocritical. Freedom of religion is only for muslims????

The Jordanians they know very well the israelian tricks.... and all of the world know that israel wants to play game,,,may be except you , you dont know that game

you sems to me came from the moon, you dont know any thing , and you dont know that isrel made by British, after killing the pilistenian and force them to leave thier land

Hey man ...i want to remind you that the death comes to israel from the east (jordan) .that day you be thrown in the sea..lol

Hey, fake guy from fake League of Nations concoction called Jordan. It takes a trick from a trick nation to talk like a trick! I guess your history books start in 1920 and tell you that you are a real country. To bad the British are your daddy and the Moon God is your mommy. I'd rather be from Spain. Also Basem, making threats from your highchair are amusing but as we both know, the last time your fake country did the dance with Israel' it got it's fake ass handed to it, remember funny man?

HE IS ARROGANT AND DECEPTIVE. WHO MADE HIM KING ? HIS FATHER DID AND AFTER THE BRITISH MADE HIS FATHER A " KING ". THE BRITS. CREATED KINGS, LIKE FAISAL, HUSSEIN AND THE OTHERS. THESE PRETEND " KINGS " WERE CREATED AT WILL BY THE BRITS. TO SERVE THE BRITISH INTERESTS IN MID-EAST. THEY CREATED THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA TO SERVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS.....................OIL. THIS REALLY MEANT HE WAS MADE THE KING OF THE " OIL " KINGDOM.