Do Not Overinterpret Qatar’s Hostility toward Israelis
Proof that the Abraham Accords are working.
December 12, 2022
Jordan Does Not Benefit from Creating Tension with Israel
Neither here nor there.
More than two decades before the signing of the Abraham Accords, Amman made peace with Jerusalem. Their cooperative relationship goes back at least to the early 1970s, when Israel intervened to stop a Syrian attempt to overthrow the kingdom and the king of Jordan tried to warn Israel of the impending Yom Kippur War. Yet, Jonathan Schanzer observes, while economic relations and behind-the-scenes security coordination continue, Jordan increasingly sends hostile public messages to its neighbor, and the past decade has been punctuated with crises.
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America Needs a New Strategy for Iran
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Jordan Does Not Benefit from Creating Tension with Israel
Neither here nor there.
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