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Jordan’s limited shelf life: Israel must prepare – analysis

One factor, regularly overlooked—or deliberately disregarded—in the discourse on Israel’s security, with far-reaching implications for its national security, is the crucial importance of the possibility of a regime change Jordan.

Israel must prepare for a daunting situation in which, along its eastern frontier, it could face a huge expanse of hostile territory, controlled by radical Islamist warlords, stretching from the fringes of Greater Tel Aviv to the border of Iraq — and beyond.

For Israel, the recent revelations regarding the financial machinations of the Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah, exposed by the release of the Pandora Papers, are likely to have far-reaching ramifications, which extend well beyond the hullabaloo of the public scandal and speculative media prattle.

Indeed, the exposé, involving a huge leak of confidential files of numerous past and present politicians, plutocrats, and other high-profile personalities (including Abdullah), from miscellaneous tax havens, harbor the potential for serious strategic impact, particularly on considerations regarding the long-term configuration of Israel’s eastern front.

However, as I have cautioned repeatedly (see for example here; here, and here),  prudence dictates that for Israel, its underlying policy assumption ought to be that the Hashemite regime has a limited “shelf-life.” Accordingly, it would be highly perilous to base any long-term strategic planning on the ruling dynasty’s durability.

Indeed, in 2019, former Mossad director Efraim Halevy counseled soberly that Israel’s “security establishment should be devising plans to deal with possible future alternatives in the Hashemite Kingdom…”

Israeli strategic planners must, therefore, prepare blueprints for the country to contend with a daunting situation in which — along its longest frontier and narrowest dimension —it may well be confronted with a huge expanse of hostile territory, controlled by radical Islamist warlords, stretching from the fringes of Greater Tel Aviv to the border of Iraq — and perhaps beyond.

As Israel has little to no ability to determine who will — and who will not — rule Jordan, the only way it can avoid this potential nightmare scenario is to ensure it continues to control of these highlands itself — which ipso facto precludes the establishment of a future Palestinian state on them.

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Karolina De 13:07 10.11.2021
THAT IS WHY GOD ORDERED THE JEWS TO KILL ALL OF THE EDOMITES 💯👌 BUT THEY DIDN'T SO KNOW WE HAVE TO SUFFER THOSE CONSEQUENCES. BUT YESHUA IS COMING TO EXTINGUISH THEM AS IT'S WRITTEN BY GOD
Karolina De 13:05 10.11.2021
ISLAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME. MOST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES RIGHT NOW ARE BANNING ENTRY TO THEM. ISREAL NEEDS TO DO THE SAME ASAP. THEY BRING TERROR EVERYWHERE & DESTRUCTION
Virginia Longoria-Rush 14:22 23.10.2021
We prey for Isreal
Gideon Arava 06:27 23.10.2021
Just about all Muslim countries today are controlled by corrupted dictator who care less about his people . They are all corrupted . Without the king in Jordan , any new government will be a disaster
Andre LaRue 06:18 23.10.2021
From Indian 🇮🇳 The rational sane government of Israel must expose their ULTRA ORTHODOX AS FAKE JEWS & expel them to Libya. They are bad news.
Andre LaRue 06:15 23.10.2021
From Indian🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 in Asia SADLY the ISLAMIST THREAT IS GROWING WORLDWIDE. THE ISLAMISTS ARE FAKE MUSLIMS LIKE THE ULTRA ORTHODOX JEWS ARE FAKE JEWS.
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