[Straight Vermonter]

if Jordan suddenly starts accepting Palestinians into Jordan

Jordan is populated primarily by Palestinians.

[Dale 1]

Jordan is populated primarily by Palestinians.

But Jordan does not want any Palestinian who isn’t a Jordanian. Part of the Iraqi, Iranian, Kuwaiti, and Syrian problem is that there are a number of disenfranchised Palestinians running around the area who do not have a home. None of these countries want them. Israel does not want them either. So maybe this deal with Jordan might be a partial solution. Just Maybe!

[aruanan]

Jordan is populated primarily by Palestinians

And the "Palestinians" in Jordan have been giant pains in the butt to the Hashemite Kingdom. A more accurate definition of "Palestinians" would be "the unassimilable, anarchist, internecine Arab tribes of the region lying between more or less real nations before 1948." The greatest stability and economic prosperity they've ever known has come as a result of the establishment of Israel. Their reputation was such in the surrounding Arab/Muslim nations that after the Arab League encouraged (read coerced) them to leave the new state of Israel, they refused to assimilate them into their own nations and kept them confined to refugee camps, even though there was great need for people following the exodus (often forced and accompanied by massive confiscation of capital) of even larger numbers of Middle Eastern Jews from these same countries during the same period.

[tbeatty]

Jordan is populated primarily by Palestinians.

THat's surprising since when Jordan controlled the west bank (1948 - 1967), Palestinians used the same terrorist attacks against Jordan that they are using against Israel. They considered Palestine under occupation when Jordan occupied it (imagine that, an Arab country didn't give them their "homeland" either, hmmmm). They are Arab and Muslim but I didn't think they were Palestinian.