Can someone explain to me why we don’t seem to hear a whole lot about Jordan re: Middle Eastern politics or war? Is their society Westernized more than their Arab neighbors are?
Maybe I haven’t been listening to the news @ the times that Jordan-related issues have popped up, maybe?
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The fact of the matter is that if Israel withdrew from the Jordan Valley and it became known among the global jihadi groups that the doors to the West Bank were open, the scale of the threat would change and the Jordanians would find it difficult to effectively halt the stream of manpower and weaponry into their territory. Clearly Jordan itself would be destabilized by this development. This is exactly what happened in 2005 when al-Qaida in Iraq set up an infrastructure in Jordan and attacked hotels and government buildings. This is also what happened during Black September in 1970, when the Jordanian army had to confront a massive Palestinian military presence and a civil war ensued.