Licht der Völker

„Luckily, King Abdullah of Jordan doesn’t have a Jewish soul still yearning, as they say in Israel’s national anthem, and as our leaders have. Otherwise, he would have violently driven out dozens of people when the first wave of Syrian refugees knocked on his kingdom’s gates. Thus, it can be said, the Jews have a yearning soul but the Jordanians are a light unto the nations. At least that’s the way it looks on the ground.“

Oudeh Basharat in einem Kommentar für Haaretz (3. März) über Jordaniens und Israels Verhalten gegenüber syrischen Flüchtlingen