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June 12, 2023

A Saudi-Jordanian Marriage Bodes Well for Israel

Dynastic unions can heal long-held grievances.

In 1925, the house of Saud drove the Hashemite clan from their historic fiefdom of the Hejaz, which includes the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and which their ancestors had ruled since the 10th century, thus inaugurating a rivalry that persists today. But, on June 1, the granddaughter of a cousin of the Saudi king wed the Hashemite crown prince of Jordan. The marriage, like the dynastic unions of pre-20th-century Europe, is thus laden with diplomatic significance, as Harold Rhode explains:

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June 12, 2023

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