The Peel Comm recognized that Jordan is Palestine in 1937

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1. @ Cathy:
   Zahran = Don Quitoe.

2. Zahran speaks for he opposition. How many Jordanians support the opposition? If they are willing and numerous enough to stage a coup to topple the monarchy, we should help them with support.

3. @ Sebastien Zorn:
   Quite appropriate.

4. Roslyn Pine Said:

   what guarantees are there

   dreuveni Said:

   What guarantees are in place

   {Comments like this always remind me of this Brecht poem altered to fit this context, Mad LIbs style, but I think the message is just as pertinent – SZ}

   [“Mad Libs consist that has a short story on each page with many key words replaced with blanks. Beneath each blank is specified a lexical or other category, such as “noun”, “verb”, “place”, or “part of the body”.[11] One player asks the other players, in turn, to contribute some word for the specified type for each blank, but without revealing the context for that word. Finally, the completed story is read aloud. The result is usually comic, surreal and somewhat nonsensical.”

   “Stern and Price’s original Mad Libs book gives the following sentence as an example:[12]”

   “_____________! he said ________ as he jumped into his convertible
   exclamation adverb
   ______ and drove off with his ___________ wife.”
   noun adjective]'”

   “Bertolt Brecht‘s poem, “The Buddha’s Parable of the Burning House,” relates a parable of the Buddha’s, found in the Lotus Sutra, to not fearing the changes which a revolution would involve.

   Guatama the Buddha taught
   The doctrine of greed’s wheel to which we are bound, and advised
   That we shed all craving and thus
   Undesiring enter the nothingness that he called Nirvana.
   Then one day his pupils asked him:
   “What is it like, this nothingness, Master? Every one of us would
   Shed all craving, as you advise, but tell us
   Whether this nothingness which then we shall enter
   Is perhaps like being at one with all creation,
   When you lie in water, your body weightless, at noon,
   Unthinking almost, lazily lie in the water, or drowse
   Hardly knowing now that you straighten the blanket,
   Going down fast –whether this nothingness, then,
   Is a happy one of this kind, a pleasant nothingness, or
   Whether this nothingness of yours is more nothing, cold, senseless and void.”
   Long the Buddha was silent, then said nonchalantly:
   “There is no answer to your question.”
   But in the evening, when they had gone,
   The Buddha still sat under the bread-fruit tree and to the others,
   To those who had not asked, addressed this parable:
   “Lately I saw a house. It was burning. The flame
   Licked at its roof. I went up close and observed
   That there were people still inside. I entered the doorway and called
   Out to them that the roof was ablaze, so exhorting them
   To leave at once. But those people
   Seemed in no hurry. One of them,
   While the heat was already scorching his eyebrows,
   Asked me what it was like outside, whether there was
   Another house for them, and more of this kind. Without answering
   I went out again. These people here, I thought,
   Must burn to death before they stop asking questions.
   And truly friends,
   Whoever does not yet feel such heat in the floor that he’ll gladly
   Exchange it for any other, rather than stay, to that man
   I have nothing to say.” So Gautama the Buddha.
   But we too, no longer concerned with the art of submission,
   Rather with that of non-submission, and offering
   Various proposals of an earthly nature, and beseeching men
   To shake off their human tormentors, we too believe that to those
   Who in face of the rising bomber squadrons of Capital go on asking too long
   How we propose to do this, and how we envisage that,
   And what will become of their savings and Sunday trousers after a revolution
   We have nothing much to say.

   This was published in 1949 in “Kalendergeschichten”, a collection of stories and poems which Brecht had written while in exile during the war. In English, “Tales from the Calendar,” translated by Ivonne Kapp and Michael Hamburger, London: Methuen, 1961.
   —
   https://whatdoesdemocracylooklike.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/bertolt-brechts-interpretation-of-the-buddhas-parable-of-the-burning-house/

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs

5. I see no value in trying to convince the doubters. Time will tell and the time is very short.

6. What guarantees are in place to insure that Zahran will be able to take over Jordan. Right now, that looks like wishful thinking. All the other factions will want their share of Jordan too and the probable result is civil war with Israel patching up the wounded as before.

7. First, it may be overly optimistic to think Zahran will take over.
   If he does what guarantees are there that he will be able to keep his word, or will want to?

8. Don Quiote??