Falconpowers – The British journalist David Hearst, editor-in-chief of the “Middle East Eye” website, said that the Iranian attack on the Israeli occupation revealed for the first time “the fighting of an Arab army alongside Israel”.
Hearst explained in an article in “Middle East Eye” that “the most foolish thing that Israeli security sources did on Sunday was to boast publicly about the cooperation they obtained from the Jordanian Air Force, which helped them shoot down drones and cruise missiles.”
Israeli sources boasted that missiles heading towards Jerusalem were intercepted on the Jordanian side of the Jordan Valley, and others near the Syrian border.
Hearst continued that “the message Israel wanted to convey is that despite appearances, Israel has allies in the region who are willing to defend it.”
Hearst commented: “But this is a foolish game if Israel wants to preserve the weak Jordanian monarchy and fight the current of public opinion that wants to storm the borders.”
He explained: “Perhaps Jordan had two faces in the past, and King Hussein used to pass intelligence information to his cigar-smoking friend, the late former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.”
He added: “But this is the first time I recall that the Jordanian Army, which still bears its original name since the liberation from the Ottoman Empire as the ‘Arab Army’, has actually joined the fighting to protect Israel’s borders, and this is a major mistake.”
Hearst spoke about the contrast between the popular and official positions, saying that “while the Jordanian population, whether Palestinian or Jordanian from the East Bank, were chanting for those missiles and wishing them to reach their targets, the Jordanian Army shot them down on behalf of Israel.”
Hearst said that “Israel only establishes relations with Arab leaders who defy the will of their peoples and impose their corrupt rule on them. The Jordanian move on Saturday may bring short-term success to Israel, but in the long run it causes problems all along Israel’s borders.”
Hearst concluded that the Israeli occupation may celebrate the fact that it has real allies, “but in doing so it fatally undermines the legitimacy of its friends.”
It is noteworthy that Jordan publicly participated in repelling the first Iranian attacks of their kind on the Israeli occupation, while Israeli newspapers mentioned that Amman also allowed Tel Aviv to use its airspace to repel Iranian missiles and drones.
