T. Belman. This is why Abdullah has to be replaced.
Jordan’s King Abdullah notified Israel on Sunday, Oct. 21, that he will not renew two annexes of the peace treaty which his father King Hussein signed with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1994. They granted Israel ownership rights for 25 years under Jordanian sovereignty in the Naharayim/Baqura and the Zofar/Al Ghamr areas of the Arava region of southern Israel, which Israeli farmers have been working.
While the announcement came two days after a big anti-Israeli demonstration in Amman, DEBKAfile’s sources disclose that it is part of a calculated move by the Jordanian monarch to bring his kingdom into alignment with Turkey, Syria and Qatar. In recent days, his prime minister, Dr. Omar al-Razzaz, has been holding intensive talks with Turkish ministers in an effort to persuade Ankara to stop routing its export goods to the Gulf via Haifa port and send them instead through Syria and Jordan. To this end, Jordan earlier this month reopened its Nassib border crossing with Syria, against strong objections from Washington and Jerusalem. The king is in the process of mending his ties with Syria’s Bashar Assad and looks forward to an early visit to Amman by an impressive Syrian official delegation headed by Foreign Minister Walid Moallem.
Qatar is performing a dual role: On the one hand, Doha is funding Israeli fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip in an effort to de-escalate Hamas-Israeli tensions, while, on the other, trying to tempt Jordan’s King to come over to its side and abandon his ties with Qatar’s rival, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah hopes Riyadh, in its weakened state following the Khashoggi affair, will not notice his desertion.
Going back on the two peace treaty annexes with Israel serves the Jordanian monarch’s evolving alignment with three allies, two of whom are hostile to Israel. He hopes his new orientation will help channel the rising domestic unrest over his failure to resolve the kingdom’s galloping economic crisis. Muslim Brotherhood activists, led by the Brotherhood’s Palestinian offshoot Hamas, have been stirring up the trouble, demanding abrogation of the peace treaty with Israel and the closure of the Israeli embassy in Amman. Hamas is in fact using Jordan as the stage for a second front against Israel as well as the Gaza Strip.
@ Michael S:
Your eschatalogcal nonsense intruding into an interesting conversation inspired me, and I suddenly realised that the bulk of Saudi Arabia approximated Serena Williams’ backside, The merchants of Tarshish were represented by their great grandparents “Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday”…Gog the chief prince of Magog is that famous Highland Chieftain MacGogger, whose kilt got caught in a thorn bush when he was running away after the battle of Culloden…..
SO…without his kilt, he was unable to attack Israel, which he has rarely heard of
anyway……. and thinks it’s somewhere due west of the Silly Islands…(spelt Scilly)
I think “Silly” is more attractive……. suits better with dreary quotes from Ezekiel.
@ Michael S:
Your eschatalogcal nonsense inspired me, and I suddenly realised that the bulk of Saudi Arabia approximated Serena Williams’ backside, The merchants of Tarshish were represented by their great grandparents “Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday”…Gog the chief prince of Magog is that famous Highland Chieftain MacGogger, whose kilt got caught in a thorn bush when he was running away after the battle of Culloden…..
SO…without his kilt, he was unable to attack Israel, which he has rarely heard of
anyway……. and thinks it’s somewhere due west of the Silly Islands…(spelt Scilly)
I think “Silly” is more attractive……. suits better with dreary quotes from Ezekiel.
What is clear and not debatable with any Pro Israel plus of clear mind that the King of Jordan can not be trusted.
Hopefully these areas in the Arava will be renegotiated (Price for lease). The King is trying to appease the masses who hate Israel. He has done this on the Temple Mount and also with his constant call for a Pal State. Bottom Line is Jordan with its 80% majority Pal-Arabs can never be trusted, as the population hates Israel and Jews!
We’re waiting for the other shoe to drop concerning Turkey-Qatar. Meanwhile, Soros, Shumer and the majority of US Jews are doing all they can to sabotage our relationship with Saudi Arabia. If the Democrats win the mid-term election for the House, the US will be paralyzed to react to bad actors in the region.
Perhaps this is what was prophesied:
Ezekiel 38:
[10] Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou [Turkey] shalt think an evil thought:
[11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
[12] To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
[13] Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Ancient Dedan approximates modern Saudi Arabia, Sheba approximates to Yemen, the “merchants of Tarshish” are represented by the US and the NATO alliance; and “Gog, the chief prince of Magog” is “Erdogan, the leader of Turkey”. The upshot is that when the Turkey-led coalition attacks Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia will be powerless to stop them.