Posted on 09/25/2012 4:03:18 PM PDT by drewh
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood has given King Abdullah II notice that he has until October to bow to their demand to transform the Hashemite Kingdom into a constitutional monarchy or face "Arab Spring" style street pressure for his abdication. Middle East sources report that Israeli and Saudi intelligence watchers are becoming increasingly concerned about the approaching climax of the conflict in Amman between Islamists and the throne.
For Israel, an upheaval in Jordan bodes the tightening of the Islamist noose around its borders – Egypt and Libya to the south and Syria to the north, with unpredictable consequences with regard to Jordan’s Palestinian population.
Saudi Arabia, already threatened by Iranian aggression, fears the oil kingdom may be next in line if its northern neighbor is crushed under the marching feet of the “Arab Spring.”
The oil kingdom’s royal rulers are reported to have belatedly woken up to the peril and are in a panic. They realize that their preoccupation with helping Syrian rebels overthrow Bashar Assad misdirected their attention from the enemies lurking at their own door.
Thousands of articles in the Arab press in the past year have predicted that after the Muslim Brotherhood seizes power in Damascus, Amman would be next in its sights followed by Riyadh.
The Jordanian monarch has options:
1. He could bow to the main Muslim Brotherhood’s demand by submitting to the kingdom’s transition to a constitutional monarchy and the transfer of executive power to an MB-led government by means of the electoral reforms for which the Brothers have been pushing for years. In Jordan as in Egypt, the Brothers hope for a two-third majority in a free election.
2. He could stand up to the Brotherhood’s demands and order his security, intelligence and military forces to crack down on the opposition. This course carries the risk of plunging Jordan into the carnage of civil war among the diverse segments of the population.
The biggest dangers come from the Bedouin tribes, whose traditional allegiance to the Hashemite throne has weakened in recent years, and the Palestinians who form 60 percent of the population.
3. He could seek to negotiate a compromise through various brokers. Our sources report that several attempts at mediation have been ventured of late, but got nowhere because the Muslim Brotherhood sent its most radical leaders to the table and they left very little margin for compromise.
According to sources at the royal court, Abdullah will very soon meet with MB leaders for a personal appeal for calm after years of heated debate. Most observers believe that he has left it too late and by now the Muslim Brotherhood has got the bit between its teeth.
Indeed, according to an internal memorandum leaked to the Al-Hayat newspaper, the MB has already set a date for mass demonstrations against the King to start on Oct. 10 and ordered its members to go to work at once to mobilize at least 50,000 demonstrators for daily protests against the king and the royal family until he bows to their will.
The memorandum states: “Every member must be dedicated to communicate with his relatives, close friends, acquaintances, fellow employees and various Islamic groups and patriots…” It calls for the formation of “hotbeds to… focus on the participation of groups affiliated with universities, schools and women’s organizations.”
Protesters are also advised on tactics for overcoming a security crackdown. Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood has therefore moved forward from opposition propaganda, debating and political pressure to activism against the throne. Both Jordanian camps are anxiously watching to see which way the wind blows in the White House.
President Barack Obama has a balancing act to resolve: On the one hand, the Jordanian king has long been a staunch American ally and friend, its mainstay in many regional crises. On the other, Obama regards the Muslim Brotherhood as the linchpin of his external policy of outreach to the Muslim world.
Nice job Obama and Hillary..so nice to know how strong you are on foreign policy.Of course all this will keep everyone from talking about the econemy. How many voters care about this?
Thanks for the info...
Why do you think Oman is exempt?
I never even though about that, so am clueless in that respect.
Higher fuel prices will bring the U.S. to it's knees. The Oboma melt down in the middle east is pretty scary stuff - not to mention the fact that those people over there are friggen bloodthirsty savages who are getting more and more empowered (with our own tax dollars and weapons) every day by this administration.
I believe Oboma and Rev. write are on the same wave length - Death to Israel, and death to America. There's no way this level of world destruction is occurring by accident.
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Oman hasn’t suffered any serious infiltration by Al-Qaeda recently. The government there is reasonably popular from what I’ve read, and the sultan also lacks the stigma of close ties to the Saudis, unlike the king of Jordan and others. Oman is an ally of the other monarchies without doubt, but you won’t see them huddling with Qatar and Kuwait etc.
They stay out of the news, which is a good sign.
If there is any connection between the two families I don’t think it is close. The Hashemite family for a long time ruled the Mecca-Medina region of Arabia, until they were kicked out by the Saudis. Fortunately for the Hashemites the British had given them Transjordan and Iraq to rule by then. (They lost Iraq in the 1958 revolt.) I think the Saudis came from a different part of Arabia to begin with.
Carter had two great achievements in foreign policy—getting the shah replaced by Khomeini, and getting Abel Muzorewa replaced by Robert Mugabe.
What I read, was that this new, younger, king does not relate well to the Beduins, and the tribes have lost a lot of their income and prosperity due to economic changes. There was a report that he went out to western Jordan to meet them, but stood on a podium with his bodyguards twirling their submachine guns, made a speech, then left without participating in the traditional meal. You may as well punch a Beduin in the face as refuse to share a meal - most insulting.
I have been to Jordan, and I observed the impact of a huge number of Iraqi refugees entering the country - quite destabalising.
Jordan also has an uneasy relationship with Israel. In recent years, members of the Israeli govt have once again started refering to Jordan as “the Palestinian state” and Jordanians see this as non-recognition, and blame their own govt for mishandling the “peace”.
Thanks!
have often wondered how long 27 virgins would last. Once you went through them would you get another 27? If yes, then would you not be getting an unlimited supply of virgins? Why the limit of 27 virgins? After that are you then kicked out of heaven? Is this the highest number that he could come up with that the people would understand? Or do the virgins regenerate after fornication to be virgins again? That would be creepy and just a little bit of false advertising. I mean after an infinity of time, those virgins just might be showing a little bit age on them without some kind of intervention. Is that really truth in advertising? Or maybe you get 27 virgins and they stay virgins because you are unable to fornicate with thme. That would answer most of these questions and would add a little humor to the discussion. You know fly a plane into a building so that you can WATCH 27 virgins walking around your tent.
I am watching The Voice right now.
Egyptian girl. brought to the US by parents because no opportunity there. Mother wanted to sing but not really allowed.
Girl also likes the law .
It makes me sick. They want to come to the US
And that was before the Muslim Brotherhood.
America the land of the dreams.
I have a sickening feeling that Jordan is going to fall.
Maybe the Palis will be back.
mark
These are stepping stones to the known future of YHWH, not speed bumps of the delusional.
It is your only hope. Our current government isn't going to help you. They're in da Hood wit' da Brotherhood.
here we go again
they just got stopped on a plan in the UAE
Halaby was born in Dallas, Texas. His father was Najeeb Elias Halaby Sr. a Syrian Christian,[1] who emigrated to the United States from Syria in 1891.[1]
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True, but the overthrowing of the Jordanian king in favor of Islamists would set a precedent. The monarchs of the region are supposed to have divine right to rule without question. If the king of Jordan has no legitimacy, it would embolden revolutionaries throughout the region to end the reign of the kings.
The UAE does not have a single government to overthrow. There is no way that AQ would be able to take over each of the separate Emirates.
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