INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
During his quarter-of-a-century rule of Jordan, King Abdullah had few working visits that were more intense than this week's trip to
Washington.Sitting nervously next to Donald Trump on Tuesday, the monarch mostly watched on in silence as reporters shouted questions about
the president's plan to "take over" Gaza or what has been called an "ethnic-cleansing" plan by human rights bodies, political leaders and
critics worldwide.Trump has insisted for several weeks that Jordan, as well as Egypt, will take expelled Palestinians as part of his plan to
was adopted by right-wing Israelis in the 1980s, wrongfully claiming that a Palestinian state existed along the east bank of the Jordan
politician Geert Wilders shared the phrase in November in a post on X, formerly Twitter.Jordan stopped giving citizenship to West Bankers in
established diplomatic, tourism and trade relations between Israel and Jordan, included an article prohibiting the mass transfer of
The arrival in Jordan of a large number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip would tilt the balance ever further against the East Bankers and
could withhold US aid, though in the presence of the Jordanian king, he said he likely would not need to stoop to that level.Jordan receives
at least $1.45bn a year from the US, which plays a crucial role in funding development programmes
The two countries hit $6.4bn in traded goods and services in 2022, which is significant considering Jordan's GDP hovers around the $50bn
The US made up 23 percent of Jordan's exports and five percent of its imports.Jordan's FTA has not been mentioned yet, but any standoff with
the US could threaten the agreement, as Trump has used FTAs in the past as a bargaining chip in previous disputes with its trading
disagree and protest on virtually everything else - unemployment, corruption, repression - but they all stand with a united voice in
head when Jordan shot down Iranian long-range missiles targeting Israel in April and October
millions of Palestinians into Jordan, King Abdullah would be forced to respond militarily (which would be suicidal against Israel and the
took power in Jordan, it is likely that Jordanian popular support for Palestine would manifest in armed resistance to Israeli
the Allenby crossing near the West Bank border in September
A month later, Israeli soldiers were wounded by gunmen who entered from Jordan in the south Dead Sea area
Then, in November, security forces shot and killed a gunman who wounded Jordanian officers near the heavily fortified Israeli embassy in
