We have probably forgotten, or conveniently forgotten, that not only “all Jews are responsible for one another,” and we didn’t delve deeply into these tribal and personal relations. It turned out that any humiliation of a Palestinian in a Hebron roadblock humiliates those sitting in the small cafés of the al-Awda camp as well. The Palestinians in Jordan treat us Israelis almost just like their brothers in Nablus and Gaza and Hebron.

Despite all of this, the peace was Jordan was indeed warm and promising, as Prof. Shamir describes in his book. As a person who has toured Amman, Aqaba and Petra quite a lot, I can bear witness to postcards with the picture of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sold in stands, dozens of senior Jordanian officers visiting the defense industries and IDF, and IDF officers’ visits to the Jordanian army, dozens of commercial deals worth millions of dollars, developed ties and endless cooperation.

We loved this peace, probably much more than our Jordanian neighbors. The first expression of this love was shown in the peace ceremony in the Arava. We agreed with the Jordanians in advance that there would be 1,200 guests, 600 from each country. The Jordanians invited 600 people to the ceremony. We brought along 6,000.

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