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| A new home for this terrorist...thank you King Abdullah of Jordan |
Jordan Allows Hamas to Take Up Residence -Karl Vick
In what looks like further evidence of diminishing American influence in the Middle East, the country that summarily ejected Hamas a dozen years ago is opening its doors to senior leaders of the group Washington and Israel regard first and foremost as a terrorist organization.
Jordan kicked out Hamas way back in 1999 under pressure from the United States.
The Palestinian organization had been anchored in Amman, but was forced to move its headquarters to Syria, where it officially remains. Life in Damascus has gotten mighty uncomfortable over the last year, however.
Quietly, senior Hamas officials began moving their families out of Syria months ago, and despite routine denials, the organization has been looking for a new home for its headquarters, too.
Amman, the Jordanian capital, already provides a place for the leader of the other major Palestinian faction to rest his head. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the secular Fatah party, regularly sleeps in Amman while traveling in and out of the adjoining West Bank, which has no working airport.
Khaled Mashaal [pictured above], who was nearly killed by Israeli agents in a botched 1997 assassination attempt in Amman, will be among those setting up housekeeping in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, roughly half of whose residents are Palestinians who made their way across the Jordan either in 1948, in 1967, or in the steady flow of “soft immigration” that has gone on since.
[Time Magazine/Global Spin Blog]
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2 comments:
It is hard to imagine why Jordan thinks this is a good idea.
Jordan is an interesting place. I've been light on them on this blog. The King's father was a reasonable man. The current King is a mixed bag. He's married to one of the most beautiful women on the planet. See:
http://femmeonamission.com/2011/07/30/pretty-lady-queen-rania-of-jordan/
But seriously, Jordan is caving to Islamists in order to try to avoid being ousted in the Arab Winter. Bowing to the Brotherhood is good politic for him [Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Moslem Brotherhood].
His invitation to Hamas is also a slap at the US as we are now perceived as weak and unprotective of allies [how different are Mubarek and the King of Jordan?].
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