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by ifwinterco 156 days ago
Trump and his whole administration is extremely pro-Israel, even by the standards of US administrations. Jordan is 95% Muslim and around a quarter of the population are Palestinian refugees, so I suspect that has something to do with it
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JumpCrisscross 156 days ago
> Jordan is 95% Muslim

And the second Arab country to recognise Israel [1]. (After Egypt. Also on the list.)

In June, Amman was probably "intercepting some of the missiles and drones en route to Israel, with debris from those interceptions causing damage in some instances" [2].

The Israel hypothesis does not hold for this list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_tr...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/caught-in-the-crossfire-jordan...

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ifwinterco 155 days ago
The Jordanian government is reluctantly pro-Israel by necessity, but the vast majority of the population (and especially the 25% that are Palestinian refugees, for very obvious reasons) are not
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TacticalCoder 156 days ago
No matter if one is pro-israel or not, there are reasons to not want your country to become an islamist country ruled by sharia (Jordan is partially ruled by sharia law).
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