MB and Hamas are funded by Iran and Qatar, mostly. Iran has significant influence in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen. The first three border on Israel. Jordan is the only other country that borders Israel. Should Iran get control of Jordan, it will have Israel completely surrounded but for the Mediterranean.
Jordan foils Iranian plot to sabotage Hashemite
Kingdom using Muslim Brotherhood cell
The Jordanian government “has been one of the most vocal opponents of Israel’s war to root out Hamas terrorists from Gaza,” yet it faces an ongoing threat from the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is an offshoot. Jordan has been playing all sides. It has been recognized as an American ally, yet it has bent over backward to foster friendship with the Muslim Brotherhood. Now its strategy is backfiring, as Hamas is stoking protests in Jordan. According to MEMRI last month:
This incitement of the Jordanian public by Hamas and MB officials enraged the Jordanian establishment. Initially, this establishment thought that adopting Hamas’ rhetoric would protect it from the public fury, but it seems that this tactic has been unsuccessful, and that Hamas’ propaganda and incitement has weakened Jordan and today even threatens to destabilize the regime.
Iran has now entered the equation, ostensibly in a bid to expand its own influence in the region:
Jordan thwarts Iran-led plan to carry out acts of sabotage in kingdom
Reuters, May 15, 2024:
Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the kingdom to help opponents of the ruling US-aligned monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter.
The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a cell of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan that has links to the military wing of Palestinian terror group Hamas.
The primary reason for Iran’s escalation is that it is allied with Hamas and Hizballah. Both groups have been “trying to recruit young, radical members of the kingdom’s Brotherhood to their anti-Israel, anti-US cause in a bid to expand Tehran’s regional network of aligned forces”:
Jordan has said it has foiled many attempts by infiltrators linked to pro-Iranian militias in Syria who it says have crossed its borders with rocket launchers and explosives, adding that some of the weapons managed to get through undetected.
Sectarian violence among Muslims is commonplace; Muslims have been killing Muslims in droves, with little international recognition of that fact. Add in the murder of Christians and other minority groups in the Middle East and in Africa; yet it is Israel that gets scrutinized.
With the attempted sabotage of the Hashemite Kingdom by Iran, Muslim-on-Muslim tensions will further grow, which is good for Israel, particularly as Jordan continues to slam Israel at every level.
It would seem that such "slamming" would play into the hands of MB, Hamas, and Iran. Perhaps a more adult attitude is called for.
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