Islamic State’s Strategy Involving Jordan and Israel

Geopolitical Futures ^ | 9 Mar, 2017 | Kamran Bokhari

[MtnClimber]

IS may try to draw in Israel by threatening Amman. Given that the Islamic State is increasingly losing territory, the world’s focus is on the efforts to dislodge the jihadist regime from its capital in Raqqa. Most observers tend to view the anti-IS campaign as a linear process that over time will lead to the destruction of the jihadist entity. But it is dangerous to assume that IS will simply go quietly into the night. Jordan is one place where IS could strike in order to draw in the Israelis and thus complicate and widen the conflict.

Israeli daily Haaretz reported on March 8 that Israel’s ambassador to Jordan, Einat Schlein, is deeply concerned about Jordan’s stability. Israel’s envoy to Amman gave a pessimistic assessment of Jordan in a briefing to Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot in October. The two officials discussed the situation in Israel’s eastern neighbor, which has seen several hundred thousand Syrian refugees cross its border. Eisenkot reportedly told colleagues that he was disturbed by what he learned from Schlein about Jordan, which shares Israel’s longest border.

[MtnClimber]

ISIS and the other islamists seem to want only terror and turmoil. Kind of like the democRATs.

[soycd]

>IS may try to draw in Israel by threatening Amman.

What is so hard about MOABing or even nuking any IS group that tries causing trouble. It would be for the good of decent humans. If you allow islam to fester in your town, prepare to get eliminated.

[BBell]

I don’t think, and I hope , that the Jordanians will allow this. They are still mad about the pilot of whom ISIS burned alive and recently they hung 10 people of which a few were terrorist. The Jordanians, or Hashemites, can be very nasty when triggered.

[PIF]

That’s a lot of “MOABing or even nuking” ... Islam has festered throughout the world since 620 AD. Islam always has caused trouble and will continue until the cult/religion/political screed/whatever is erased from the Earth.