Jordan: Protests against "Israel" Gas Agreement Ongoing
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Anti-normalization protests across Jordan continue, despite that the gas agreement was lodged in 2016.
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Protests across Jordan against the gas agreement between "Israel" and Jordan
A gas agreement between Jordan and "Israel" was signed in 2016; an agreement which was popularly and parliamentarily rejected. The agreement, which sparked protests then, has resurfaced among the public, especially after the agreement came into effect this year.
The Jordanian campaign to drop the gas agreement with "Israel" has organized and mobilized a march in Amman, Jordan, in rejection of the water, electricity, gas, and energy agreements binding Jordan to "Israel".
Despite efforts of the House of Representatives to have a positive image in front of the population by rejecting the agreement and trying to abort it, its positions remain under suspicion, especially that its term ends next April and the parliamentary elections are on the way, which prevents making any tangible, concrete decision regarding the agreement.
The "Enemy Gas is Occupation" campaign in Jordan and the "Lebanese Campaign to Boycott the Supporters of Israel - BDS" called on the opponents of normalization with "Israel" to popularly, socially, institutionally, and contingently, at the Arab level, pressure and prevent 'energy' normalization with the Israeli occupation through the Arab quadripartite agreement to supply Lebanon with energy.
Mass protests erupted in Jordan on Friday, in front of the Husseini Mosque in downtown Amman, organized by the Popular Movement for Change, in opposition to the US-sponsored declaration of intent signed this week by Jordan, “Israel”, and the United Arab Emirates.
Al Mayadeen's Amman correspondent reported that protesters chanted in rejection of the water-for-electricity agreement signed by their government with the Zionist enemy, which they called "shameful".
Rashid, who participated in the recent protests, referred to several attempts "to introduce normalization into university education and make it a fait accompli," while the Jordanian students' movement confronts this issue by adhering to a "free position that stresses that hostility to the Zionist entity is not only because of our attachment to the Palestinian cause, which is the essence of liberation, but is also the result of our realization that we are Zionist targets."
Rashid asserted that the student movement, throughout history, has proven its solidarity and permanent alignment with "the most important national issues that reject normalization deals with the Zionist entity."
