The author is right in some things and wrong in other. There is no intifada to spread from J&S to Jordan Rather what he fears is that the Palestinians living in Jordan will take to the streets and challenge him. I have been promoting the Jordan is Palestine solution headed by Mudar Zahran and his Party the New Jordan Party. It is this movement that he fears. There is no chanced that the Palestinians and the MB will get together but there is a good chance that the Palestinians and the Bedouin will get together. In fact I have a draft of their tentative agreement.
So far, only the Bedouin have taken to the streets. The Palestinians are biding their time.
The kings days are numbered and the latest reports I have read is that he is shipping his valuable art, cars and other moveables out of the country. Neither Abdullah nor Israel wants the Palestinians. If one wins the other loses and they both know it. So while they have established a quiet border, there interests are in direct conflict. Ted Belman
King Abdullah is seeking to complete the divorce proceedings between Jordan and the Palestinians which his late father, King Hussein, began in 1988.
The separation began in July that year, a few months after the eruption of the first intifada.
His biggest fear was that the intifada would spill over into Jordan, where the Palestinian majority would rise against his monarchy.
By cutting off Jordan’s legal and administrative ties with the West Bank, King Hussein signaled his desire to part from the Palestinians living there. Jordanians and Palestinians at the time hailed the decision as a positive step toward the Palestinians establishing a state of their own.
But many Jordanians felt that the divorce had not been completed given the fact that most Palestinians living in the kingdom continue to hold Jordanian citizenship.
In recent years, King Abdullah has faced calls from fellow Jordanians to act quickly to ensure that the separation from the Palestinians would be completed.
In 2009, Amman quietly began revoking the Jordanian citizenship of thousands of Palestinians, triggering strong protests from human rights organizations and pro-Palestinian groups around the world.
Over the past year, Jordan has witnessed increased demands for reforms and democracy. The “Arab Spring” that has been sweeping the Arab world has prompted thousands of Jordanians to take to the streets every week to demand real changes and freedoms.
The growing protests have clearly embarrassed and confused King Abdullah, who is feeling the heat approaching him rapidly.
The monarch’s biggest fear is that the powerful and popular Muslim Brotherhood organization would form an alliance with the Palestinians and turn against his regime, seriously undermining his grip on power.
King Abdullah is now hoping that a new electoral law would prevent both the Islamists and Palestinians from gaining victories in the upcoming parliamentary election, scheduled for later this year.
Talk in Israel and elsewhere about turning Jordan into a Palestinian state has also left the king worried about the future of his kingdom. That explains why he is not even prepared to receive 1,100 Palestinian refugees who have fled Syria in recent weeks, while at the same time welcoming more than 100,000 Syrians who crossed the border into Jordan.
The Jordanians have no problem absorbing tens of thousands of Iraqis, Syrians and Libyans. But when it comes to the Palestinians, it’s a completely different story. The last thing King Abdullah needs is another 500,000 Palestinians in the country.
King Abdullah is now seeking to distance himself from the Palestinians. He says he wants the Palestinians to go to the West Bank and Gaza Strip and establish their own state there, and not elsewhere.
The king feels reassured only when an Israeli or US official tells him that “Jordan is for the Jordanians and Palestine for the Palestinians.”
who are the “indigenous” peoples of “Jordan”. what is a Jordanian, a palestinian a bedouin? When 77% of an area is severed and dedicated solely and exclusively to one ethnic peoples of the area what does that imply regarding the remaining 23%? The original mandate territory included Jordan therefore Jordan belongs to Israel. If the Jews and arabs could not coexist in the mandate territory, and the area needed partition for that reason, then it stands to reason that each population goes to its side of the line, a swap of populations. the world wishes to partition the remaining vestiges of Israel based on the fact that some arabs still reside there. This logic means that Haifa will also need to be severed off. This suits the world” to whittle down the home of the jews that they cannot stop slaughtering and swindling without shame.
His father was an incompetent fool and so is the son [Abdullah]–these so called but not palestinians should have been driven out of Jordan–but instead they have been allowed to develop as a cancer!
But Jordan is palestine.
Hippocrates, the Arabs aren’t very good at math. To them, the Arabs (who form a minority in Israel West of Jordan) are a majority. In fact, every Arab considers himself a majority and therefore the rightful ruler of his country (or of the world, depending on the depth of his vision).
Meanwhile, King Abdullah may want to disengage from Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem; but his half-brother seems right at home there:
Jordan is 78% of the Palestine Mandate Land
The population is a majority of Palestinian Arabs
The Kings son is Palestinian Arab via his mother the queen Rania (who is a Palestinain Arab through her
two parents from Tulkarm). That same son is the Crown Prince and will be the next King in Jordan. He is 18 this year.
Why doesnt reh Israeli government see the resolution of the Palestinian arab situation in Jordan as more important
than a “stable” Hashemite benign dictatorship rulling the 99% on non Hashemites?
Like the alawite in Damscus ruling the majority who are not….
Democracy has eyes, whether your in Damscus or in Amman…the 99% want to rule…