The peace between Israel and Jordan has always been cold, especially as compared to the warmth of the relations between the Abraham Accords states. King Abdullah of Jordan is under constant pressure from Islamic hardliners in his country, where the Islamic State was quite popular. There is no chance that such people would ever accept a Jewish state.
“Peace Between Jordan and Israel Unraveling, Report Says,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, December 17, 2022:
Israel’s decades-long peace with Jordan is unraveling, a development that threatens to upset a fragile regional stability that is being challenged by countries like Iran, Russia, and China, a think tank report warns.
“Since 2020, if not before then, the Jordanian peace has turned decidedly cold,” according to Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the Treasury Department who now works at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. While the relationship has been breaking down behind the scenes for some time, Jordan also began to publicly war with Israel in recent years, by refusing to sign the Abraham Accords peace agreements, attacking incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and threatening to fully abrogate the peace deal it signed with Israel in 1994.
Schanzer’s findings, published in a report last week, indicate the United States could be faced with a looming crisis in the Middle East that threatens to upset nearly 30 years of stability between the two former enemies. The fracture between Israel and Jordan could also empower American enemies like Russia, China, and Iran, which are all working in tandem to erode U.S. influence in the region.
“All of this should come as unwelcome news to the United States and to America’s Middle East allies. In anticipation of intensifying great power competition with China, and perhaps to a lesser extent Russia, it is crucial for Washington to project unity among allies in the Middle East,” the report says. “This is especially the case amidst the continued havoc that the Islamic Republic of Iran is exporting across the region.”
Other Middle East analysts agree that Jordan’s ties with Israel have become increasingly strained in recent years, particularly due to the stagnant peace process with the Palestinians….
Fitna says
When any nation seeks war with Israel, make them pay so heavily they wouldn’t dream of fighting again.
This is the mistake Israel and some western nations make. They only fight to show their strength and make them back off for a short while, but then allow the enemy to rebuild and try again in the future.
Israel needs to change the way it does things and to esp. stop bowing to the so-called international community of Muslims and European Nazis that want the Jews to stop defending themselves.
cardbank16 says
Extraordinary that Jordan which was carved out of the British Mandate of Palestine about 1925, should have such animus towards Israel which was constituted from the same Mandate in 1948.
What if the dates had been the other way around and Israel formed first?
Would Israel have thought it justified to try and wipe Jordan off the map?
Scotsman48 says
The current King of Jordan is not his Father in any shape or form, thats more than obvious.
ElderlyZionist says
Never mind the ‘Islamists’, most Jordanians are Sunni south Syrian Arabs, who hate Israel like poison and have never been very fond of the Beduin Kings that the British foisted on them.
Jordan is recently supposed to be collaborating with Israel on projects to environmentally restore the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea. There’s a lot to be lost if Jordan breaks the treaty with Israel, but more is at risk for Jordan. In particular, King Abdullah might be deprived of control of the Islamic Waqf that administers the Haram al-Sharaf on the Temple Mount. This might catalyze significant change to the much revered status quo of the Temple Mount, perhaps even allowing Jews to openly pray there.
I wonder who’ll be more angry? King Abdullah or Barak Obama?