As talk of Israel’s annexation of part of the “West Bank” continues, it is important to recall that last November, the Kingdom of Jordan cancelled a component of its 1994 peace treaty with Israel. It evicted Israeli famers from two tracts of contested land in the Jordan River Valley that they had been farming for […]
Jordan conducts military exercise simulating war with Israel
What has Israel done to Jordan? Nothing, of course. Discover the basis of this enduring hostility in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. “Jordan simulates war with Israel in army ‘maneuver,’” Jerusalem Post, November 29, 2019: The Jordanian army conducted a military exercise simulating battle with Israel, according to […]
Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy singles out “radical Islamists”
Bolton says: “Radical Islamist terrorist groups represent the preeminent transnational terrorist threat to the United States, and to United States’ interests abroad. The fact is the radical Islamic threat that we face is a form of ideology. This should not be anything new to anybody. King Abdullah of Jordan has frequently described the terrorist threat […]
King Abdullah of Jordan: “Maybe there’s a lack of understanding of Islam” in Washington
There is indeed a lack of understanding of Islam in Washington, but not in the way King Abdullah is claiming. Abdullah said: “It is not a religion of hate. We as Muslims believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah. We believe in the Holy Virgin Mother. We believe in the Bible and the Torah, and […]
Jordan’s King: “The fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish policy”
“The problem is bigger than the Islamic State, this is a third world war, and this is Christians, Jews working with Muslims against outlaws.” That’s an interesting take on the situation. It is indeed a third world war, but few see it as such, and all too many Muslims and non-Muslims in the West have […]
Jordan’s Abdullah: Islamic State “does not resemble our religion in any way”
The video of the burning of the Jordanian pilot is entitled, “Healing the Believers Chests.” That’s from the Qur’an: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you over them, heal the breasts of Believers.” (Qur’an 9:14) Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who years ago tried to murder students at […]
Some Shi’ites link Saudi king’s death to end times, return of the Mahdi
“But some Shiite scholars think differently about the matter, believing that Abdullah’s death will mark the beginning of a chain of great events that will shock the world.” That could well be true, even without “the rise of Imam Mahdi.” The main concern for non-Muslims is that all too many Shi’ite (and Sunni) end-times scenarios […]
Robert Spencer in FP: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King
Mistah Abdullah, he dead. The horror. The horror. Abdullah was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. Old Abdullah was as dead as a door-nail. So what now? The crown prince, Abdullah’s half-brother, Prince Salman, has taken over, but it might not be that easy. After all, it wasn’t too many […]
Saudi King Abdullah is dead
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is dead. This is not an optimum time for a transition. The Saudis’ massive expenditures to export the jihad doctrine have come back to bite them in the form of the Islamic State, a self-proclaimed caliphate that denies the legitimacy of the House of Saud (and every other government other than […]