Queen Rania of Jordan says U.S. is seen as "enabler" of Israel

Palestinians and others successful the Middle East spot the U.S. arsenic an "enabler" of Israel successful its warfare with Hamas, Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan said Sunday connected "Face the Nation." 

"People presumption the U.S. arsenic being a enactment to this war," Rania said successful an interrogation with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan. "Because, you know, Israeli officials accidental that without U.S. support, they couldn't motorboat this war."

• Transcript: Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan connected "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024

Jordan, a U.S. ally, has had a bid pact with Israel since 1994. The queen, who is of Palestinian descent, has criticized the absorption to the warfare by the U.S. and different countries, saying there's been a "selective exertion of humanitarian law" that's causing a "loss of credibility" successful the U.S. 

"The U.S. whitethorn beryllium Israel's most-closest ally, but a bully person holds a person accountable," she said. 

Rania said the satellite is getting "mixed messages" from the U.S., which she says has some made expressions of interest implicit civilian deaths successful Gaza and provided violative weapons to Israel "that are utilized against Palestinians." She urged the planetary assemblage to usage leverage to compel Israel to fto assistance into Gaza and bring an extremity to the war, saying the U.S. tin bash truthful by saying it won't proceed to supply violative weapons to Israel. 

The queen described the war's toll connected the Arab world, which she said has watched arsenic Gaza has go "unrecognizable" implicit the past 7 months. As Israel's bombardment of Gaza has stretched connected for astir 7 months since the Oct. 7 violent attack, the Hamas-run Health Ministry has said that astatine slightest 34,000 person died arsenic the humanitarian situation has escalated, though the Health Ministry does not designate betwixt civilians and combatant casualties. 

"It's been rather devastating. And the interaction has been, evidently radical are truthful traumatized by what they're seeing each day," she said. "We were traumatized by Oct. 7, but past this war, we consciousness is not, you know, Israel is saying that this was a antiaircraft war. Obviously, it was instigated by Oct. 7, but the mode it's being fought is not successful a antiaircraft way."

Queen Rania made wide that Hamas does not correspond the bulk of radical successful Gaza, and that Palestinians person been dehumanized successful decades by Israel to "numb radical to Palestinian suffering."

"When you trim radical to a convulsive radical who are antithetic to america — truthful they're not motivation similar us, truthful so it's good to inflict symptom and suffering connected them due to the fact that they don't consciousness it the aforesaid mode we bash — it allows radical to bash atrocious things," she said. "That's-that's the intelligence loophole of dehumanization, it allows you to warrant the unjustifiable, to bash atrocious things and inactive spot yourself arsenic a bully person."

At the aforesaid time, the queen condemned antisemitism, calling it "the worst benignant of bigotry" and "pure hatred." And she drew a enactment betwixt antisemitism and speaking retired against the warfare successful Gaza and Israeli policy.

Her interrogation comes arsenic President Biden is acceptable to conscionable with King Abdullah II of Jordan this week. The medication is besides facing a deadline to supply Congress with a determination of whether Israel is utilizing American weapons successful accordance with planetary instrumentality successful the coming days.