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1 theye1  Wed, Feb 9, 2011 1:56:32am

Jordanian Hardliners are obsessed with their national identity and see an integrated Palestinian minority as a threat to their identity as Jordanian people. They're also obsessed with a conspiracy that everyone but Jordan are conspiring to build a Palestinian state in Jordan, which is truthfully a nutty fringe idea.

Also, I don't think Palestinians are a majority in Jordan.

2 shutdown  Wed, Feb 9, 2011 3:32:22am

re: #1 theye1

Jordanian Hardliners are obsessed with their national identity and see an integrated Palestinian minority as a threat to their identity as Jordanian people. They're also obsessed with a conspiracy that everyone but Jordan are conspiring to build a Palestinian state in Jordan, which is truthfully a nutty fringe idea.

Also, I don't think Palestinians are a majority in Jordan.

Nationalist paranoia in Jordan is driven by the tenuous "founding mythology" of the country. There is not really a historical record of a "Hashemite Kingdom" and the sovereign borders are generally a result of what was left over after drawing the boundaries of neighbouring states, including Israel following the conclusion of the British Mandate.

The Palestinian minority in Jordan has existed the inception of nationhood. Following a perceived demographic threat, the previous King exiled a large part of the Palestinian population to Lebanon (you don't hear a lot about a "right of return" to Jordan, do you?).

3 Flavia  Wed, Feb 9, 2011 11:25:52am

Abdullah must be sweating bullets right now. Jordan is about 5/6 of what used to be the Palestinian Mandate, and his father ended up killing about 20,000 "Palestinians" after Arafat (having turned down a position in the government, a compromise Hussein had cooked up to keep peace & be fair) tried to seize control of the airport (Black September). His people actually have more reason to both fear & hate the "Palestinians" than anyone. But the King should not really be worried - facts & fairness don't matter in the Middle East - just so long as anyone wants to pin it on Israel, that's what'll happen.


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