Jordan king warns that Israel's annexation plans jeopardise regional peace

https://uk.reuters.com ^ | JULY 13, 2020 | Reuters

[Zhang Fei]

[And that’s why the King of Jordan has to be very careful in what he says. The Israelis wouldn’t try to topple him. But his fellow Muslims just might.]

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Citizens in the West are fairly docile. Citizens in Arab and Muslim countries are far less so. Hence the bloody revolts, mutinies and coup attempts. Statements like this are issued so he is on the record as having opposed the Zionist enemy, thereby preventing ambitious internal rivals from using his silence as pretext to brand him as an apostate and a traitor, kicking off one or multiple attempts to oust him.

[Honest Nigerian]

Israel gets blamed for everything that goes bad. All over the world.
And they even get blamed for doing good.
They are the Rodney Dangerfield of nations. They can’t get no respect!

[RomanSoldier19]

[cpdiii]

Jordan is a de facto Allie of Israel. The words of The King must be taken seriously as those of Saudi and Egypt also allies but not in name.

Iran is the enemy and all else is peripheral.

I have lived there as a young boy and worked there as an adult. I know of which I speak.