After strongly calling for an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on her social networks, Queen Rania of Jordan has gone further and has disfigured the “double standard” with which this conflict is judged from the West. During an interview with the British-Iranian journalist Christiane Amanpour for CNN, Rania has once again used her position to make visible a situation that she believes is unfair and that affects her closely, since, although she was born in Kuwait, she is the daughter of Palestinian parents with roots in Tulkarem, one of the main Palestinian cities in the West Bank.
“When October 7 happened, the world immediately and unequivocally sided with Israel and its right to defend itself and condemned the attack that occurred… but what we are seeing in the last two weeks, we are seeing silence in the world when it comes to Gaza,” he reproached.
Putting herself in her role as a mother, Abdullah II’s wife, alludes to the fact that “we have seen Palestinian mothers who have to write the names of their children on their hands, because the chances of them dying from bombings, of their bodies becoming corpses, they are very high”. “I just want to remind the world that Palestinian mothers love their children as much as any other mother in the world,” Rania added.
The queen has also shown that this conflict in the Middle East did not begin on October 7 and has presented her version of the history of the Israeli occupation and the displacement of the Palestinian people: “This is a story that dates back 75 years, a story of overwhelming death and displacement for the Palestinian people. It is a story of an occupation under the apartheid regime, occupying land, demolishing houses, confiscating land, military incursions, night raids.”
During the connection, Rania has also defined the Israeli state as an “apartheid regime.” “It is the first time in modern history that there is so much human suffering and the world does not even ask for a ceasefire. So the silence is deafening, and for many in our region, it makes the Western world an accomplice,” Rania said. . “Most networks cover the story under the headline ‘Israel at War.’ But for many Palestinians on the other side of the separation wall, on the other side of the barbed wire, the war has never gone away.”
Rania was born in Kuwait but her parents are Palestinians with roots in Tulkarem. Since her ascension as queen consort of Abdullah II of Jordan, whom she married without him having the title of crown prince, Queen Rania has used her position to defend various sectors of Jordanian society and beyond these borders.
Focused on education, childhood and youth empowerment, among its many initiatives and awards, is the Queen Rania scholarship program that partners with several universities around the world to support students with scholarships and different trainings. Another of Rania’s endeavors is the importance of intercultural and interreligious dialogue to foster greater understanding, tolerance and acceptance around the world. More than 10 million people follow her on her social networks. She is also determined to correct with her speech what she considers misconceptions in the West about the Arab world.
