The EU is playing games with their money.
Jordan’s fertility rate is 3.19 children born/woman. Much of their people depend on various forms of “public assistance”, camouflaged as subsidized food and “public employment”.
For a while, Muslim states have tried to defer fate by exporting their unskilled males to Europe, to sponge off their welfare states. That’s not going to work for much longer. I don’t think there is a solution that does not involve women stopping having kids which they will be unable to feed without welfare.
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Oh, those fun-loving palis, a malignancy where ever they exist.
“More ominous for the kingdom is the fact that some 70 percent of the population considers itself to be “Palestinian.”
I think I see the problem. Black September redux soon.
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Thanks SJackson. No good deed goes unpunished -- Jordan has hosted many thousands of refugees fleeing Assad's civil war in the neighboring failed state of Syria, and 70 percent of Jordanians are so-called Palestinians. The article or op-ed has a weird idea that the Israeli intervention which helped save the late King Hussein when Syria colluded with the PLO to overthrow the dynasty was a mistake -- that's an absurd statement, what actually happened was, the Jordanian back channel to Israel was opened, and it consisted of King Hussein himself, communicating with Israeli intelligence via his doctor (a real doctor, but also an operative) in London. After the coup attempt, the terrorists were either killed, or imprisoned for a time, or they fled for their miserable worthless lives, mostly to Lebanon. That led to the further destabilization of Lebanon (destroying Lebanese independence has been a longterm goal of the Syrian regime).
...will also visit Jordan, and the capital Amman where his wife the Duchess of Cambridge lived from May 1984 until September 1986.
The king and his pali wife and kids can claim sanctuary in Israel.
What would Hillary have done?
I would say that Royals of Jordan are in a bad position.
The majority of their subjects are hostile or indifferent, they share borders with hostile or failed states, and they are infested with Syrian refugees.
Unless they are willing to indulge in some genocide, they better keep their overseas accounts full, and their royal airliner on standby.
It may be time to send in the Marines to take out the deep state bad actors that have been forced to move to Jordan.
If I remember correctly, when Palestine said they did not want the United States in the Israeli peace talks, King Abdullah said he did not want peace talks WITHOUT the United States.