Jordan’s Outreach to Hamas: The Politics of Distress
In the latest Issue Brief from the Jersualem Center for Public Affairs, veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Pinhas Inbari writes: “Until recently, Jordan was the only Arab country that had boycotted the fundamentalist Hamas movement. However, in 2007 Jordanian intelligence held a series of meetings with Hamas leaders to end hostile relations and start afresh.”
Inbari explores the reasons for this change, including the Jordanian government being concerned with its “increasingly precarious situation. Iran, its Syrian partner and Hizbullah and Hamas proxies are playing a destabilizing role in the region, while Jordan sees Israel and the United States as currently unwilling to confront them.”
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