Amiry Suad and Hasan-Rokem Response

Anyone can look at a map of current or old geography and see that Jordan is and has for a long time, been a neighbor of Israel. the chapter of the book that Amiry Suad wrote brought up a good point. An ongoing struggle between Jordan and Israel when it comes to displacement of Palestinians has become ever clear to me especially after reading this chapter of the novel. Jordan itself has displaced well over 700 Palestinians from their homes near the border touching Israel. Its disturbing to me that both governments are easily and strategically removing Palestinian residents from their countries. It is literally true when Palestinians claim that they are removed from homes to be displaced else where and not allowed to return because they are denied permits or passports of state recognition by both governments. What happens is Israel will remove Palestinians, trick them using excuses and lies to give them permits or in this case, "gas masks," and send them through Jordan's border when it sees a weakness in their border security. Also perhaps and not confirmed, but maybe border patrol officers and soldiers in Jordan were payed off by the Israeli government to let Palestinians in considerable numbers be allowed through the border during times of crisis like during the Iraq War.  The same goes for Jordan, they do the exact same thing sometimes. And this cycle repeats and Palestinians get shoved back and forth between Jordan and Israel. As for the Iraq War, sure, Israel told Palestinian residents near the border that they needed gas masks because of a potential chemical weapons threat. But now that we know that Iraq never had WMD's (weapons of mass destruction), we know that they never had large scale capability of chemical warfare to expense on Israel or other countries. The fact is, the Bush Administration lied to the media and American citizens when they said that Saddam had chemical weapons and WMD's. The Israeli government was clearly informed of this lie as well and exploited it, using it as an excuse to remove Palestinians in the example given to us by Amiry Suad. It's disturbing, the ability of Israel to pacify a portion of its country with false information in desired areas to remove or get rid of Palestinians. And at the end of the day, I'm sure their government passed it off as a removal of Hamas involved individuals in that region, not of regular and innocent Palestinian citizens. Better media platforms with honest reporters need to rise and face this challenge, but I fear it won't be anytime soon.