Jordan's king mildly criticized the October 7 massacre. No Arab news site reporting this. Not even the Arabic State Department site!

Times of Israel reports:

Jordan’s King Abdullah gave one of his most pointed criticisms of Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught in southern Israel, declaring that the massacre should be unacceptable to Muslims, and calling for a “lasting” ceasefire that would end the war in Gaza triggered by the unprecedented attack.

Speaking alongside US President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday, Abdullah said “all attacks against innocent civilians, women and children, including those of October 7, cannot be accepted by any Muslim. As I have previously stressed, we must make sure the horrors of the past few months since October 7, are never repeated, nor accepted by any human being.”

While he swallowed up his mild criticism of October 7 with much more elaborate and detailed criticism of Israel, it is significant that he said that, one would think.

Or is it?

If an Arab leader says something in English for a Western audience that barely scolds other Arabs, yet no Arabs can hear it, or know about it, does it make a sound?

I cannot find a single Arabic website based in the Arab world that mention this part of Abdullah's speech.  (CNN Arabic did.)

Even more bizarre, the official State Department Arabic translation of the press conference only includes President Biden's remarks - it doesn't publish anything that King Abdullah said! The English language site included both leaders' remarks, but not the Arabic site.

It almost seems like everyone knows that King Abdullah could get severely criticized if his statements were publicized in the Arab world. Everyone - Arab media and the US State Department - wants to make sure that Abdullah's pretense of caring about Israeli civilians is kept as quiet as possible.

If so...what good is it? It is like Yasir Arafat's pro-forma "condemnations" of terror attacks during the second intifada, many of which were performed by groups who swore allegiance to him. 

It is a meaningless gesture for Arab leaders to criticize attacks on Jewish civilians when their words will never reach the people who wholeheartedly support such attacks. It is a checkbox item to make themselves look "moderate" to the Western world, which never reports that Jordanians are among the most antisemitic people on Earth and Jordanian media publishes explicitly antisemitic content daily. 

King Abdullah is doing nothing to change that. 

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