As the skies over Amman and other Jordanian cities lit up with Jordan’s interception of Iranian drones and missiles headed for Israel last weekend, officials in the country were notably silent for hours.
Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel in retaliation for a suspected April 1 Israeli assault on its diplomatic building in Damascus has put the kingdom in an uneasy and dangerous position.
Jordan’s geography demonstrates its quandary. The small kingdom sits between Israel and the West Bank on one side, and Iran’s neighbor Iraq on the other, where pro-Iran militias reign supreme. To its north lies Syria, a failing state that is also in Iran’s orbit.
Last week’s attack was the first time in more than three decades that missiles directed at Israel entered Jordanian airspace, when Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles at the Jewish state in 1991 during the Gulf War.
Jordan did the right thing, they defended their airspace, they stopped missiles from flying over their cities. Who is shooting them and where they are going is immaterial.
Thats just a propaganda line. They are doing Israel’s bidding because the US needed an Arab partner so it doesn’t look like it’s just Western (US) and former colonial powers (France and UK) helping Israel.
Brb, gonna fling some turds over your abode.
I hope you aren’t rattled by the occasional errant turd slapping your front door!