Jordan

King calls creation of Palestinian step a first step toward Arab-Israeli peace. Implied, repatriation of refugees and partition of Jerusalem must follow. MK Hendel (NRP) says impressed by Abdullah’s dedication to peace.

Like Iran, Jordan claims it will develop only peaceful nuclear energy. Abdullah earlier said nuclear energy needed to desalinate water. Large-scale desalination of the Dead Sea spells ecological catastrophe. Jordan possesses close to 200,000 tons of uranium deposits.

Jordan’s political parties and trade unions slam the planned visit of dozens of members of the Israeli fifth column to Jordan, where the Jewish peace activists are to meet with Jordanian officials.

Orthodox Christian patriarchy in Jerusalem leased two hotels to a company registered in Israel. Israel allowed Jordan to administer the Temple Mount and the lands in Jerusalem where Christian churches have property. Jordan bans sale of real estate to non-Arabs – a version of the earlier law that prohibited land sales to Jews. Jordan sentenced scores of Arabs to death for selling land to Israelis, recently convicted the Arabs who sold Israeli Jews a house in Hebron now known as “House of Peace.”
Jordan signed peace treaty with Israel, pushes the peace process, and regularly hosts Israeli peace activists.

Abdullah champions interests of Palestinian Arabs, called attention of the World Economic Forum to the plight of Palestinians. Abdullah envisages a Jordan-Palestinian confederation over which he will preside. Independent Palestinian state in the West Bank is a death sentence to Jordanian monarchy which rules over Palestinian majority in Jordan.

Unable to counter even the slight Hamas presence in Judea and Samaria, Abbas formally asked Israel to permit deployment of Jordanian troops. Netanyahu supports the move.
For all the training, financing, and weapons’ supply, Fatah conceded itself powerless against Hamas even in Judea and Samaria, traditionally considered Fatah’s territory. Nevertheless, Olmert plans to free 250 Fatah terrorists from Israeli jails to bolster Abbas’ stance.
Jordan long mulls confederacy plans with the Palestinians of Judea and Samaria. Given the Palestinians’ failure to achieve statehood and their perpetual civil strife, Jordanian confederacy is a viable option. The issue of Palestinian statehood will be reduced to the Israel-Jordan border dispute and readily solved.
Jordanian army efficiently rooted out the PLO and expelled all Palestinian migrants in what is known as “Black September” fighting, but otherwise supported Palestinian guerrillas. Jordan’s army lack anti-terrorist experience, won’t be able to crash Hamas in Judea and Samaria by inhumane measures it used to finish off the PLO, and will impede the IDF’s antiterrorist operations in Judea and Samaria.

Jordan Bedouin princeling Abdullah denounced the reports of possible Jordanian-Palestinian confederacy. Qualifications such as “premature” and “at this time” in Abdullah’s interview show that Jordan resist incorporating a West Bank plunged in civil war but is open to confederacy scheme if the things in Palestine settle down. Jordan will prefer controlling Palestine with its Badr brigade as peacekeepers, wait and see.

Jordan barred Israeli Palestinian sheikh Salah from entering that country. Israel allows that honest Arab to continue preaching against Jewish occupation.

US will assist Jordan in developing civilian nuclear reactors. Jordan is not expected to gain expertise necessary to produce nuclear weapons.

On the day that Israeli Jews celebrate the Independence Day, loyal Israeli Arabs, naturally, commemorate their catastrophe. That’s quite a sign of them accepting the Jewish state.
Jordan, a country more sane than the leftist Israel, prohibited its Palestinians to publicly commemorate al Naqba.

for the ostensibly peaceful program. Any significant incident on Jordan’s nuclear power plant would contaminate the entire Israel. Jordan’s Bedouin camel drivers might not make the most skilled nuclear power plant operators.
Palestinians constitute a majority in Jordan and poised to take power in any transparent elections.