Jordanian royals who are wrongly perceived as key allies of the United States have always been favoring, supporting and harboring Palestinian terrorism in Israel, while they also are staunch fans of Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza and beyond. Despite repeated requests from the US authorities, Jordan did not extradite Ahlam Tamimi, a notorious terrorist and member of Hamas who is responsible for killing many Israeli and American citizens. Tamimi is in the ‘Most Wanted List’ of the FBI.
Meanwhile, according to media reports, Jordanian Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein added their voice to the anti-Israel protesters in their own way. The queen turned her photo to a black circle while the crown prince issued a strong anti-Israeli statement. Huge electronic street advertisements that were running commercial content switched to portraying support and expressions of mourning to Palestinians while highlighting Palestinian-Jordanian relations.
The Gaza hospital explosion, which was later revealed to be an act of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, led Jordanians, of Palestinian origin or not, to try to act. Jordanians of all walks of life expressed their anger about the hospital disaster, putting allegations on Israel Defense Forces, in strongly worded protests, as well as a business strike in Amman, highly unusual for the Jordanian capital.
Many of the protests were genuinely ad hoc with almost no prior planning. While in previous protests, the Islamists were often the planners and the attendees, many of the current participants of the demonstrations are first-timers. The images in the media from Palestine have sparked unusual courage for many to go out to the streets, leading to a huge uptick in protests.
Members of Jordanian royal family backed such protests and even distributed funds to further intensify anti-Israel and anti-US demonstrations in the streets of Amman in particular. Jordanian media were reportedly asked by Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein to run anti-Israel propaganda.
Meanwhile, according to media sources, Jordanian King Abdullah II is under tremendous pressure from Palestinian populace in Jordan as well as a number of anti-Israel Arab nations, including Qatar. Under this circumstance, although Jordan is recipient of huge financial aid from the United States, King Abdullah may this time betray Washington, as he has earlier did centering the case of extraditing FBI’s most-wanted Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and several Arab nations are making frantic bids in convincing US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to exert pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in calling for an immediate ceasefire and to stop Israel’s current operations in Gaza. They also want Israel to immediately resume electricity and water supply in Gaza. President Biden has made it clear he would not call for a cease-fire.
Meanwhile, a large number of anti-Israel elements inside White House and State Department are continuously working in forcing Biden administration in shifting its pro-Israel policy and start supporting Palestinians and refrain from exerting pressure on Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). At such frantic bids of those anti-Israel, anti-Semite and Jew-hating officials inside White House and State Department, on October 21, 2023, US Embassy in Dhaka at the instruction of Ambassador Peter D. Haas flew American flag at half-staff mourning “Palestinians killed by Israel”. It may be mentioned here that the US Embassy in Dhaka did not mourn the death of over 1,400 Israelis during October 7 Hamas pogrom.
