T. Belman. Ettinger is right to call for regime change in Iran but woefully wrong to refer to;
“Jordan’s pro-US Hashemite regime, ” and saying, “The toppling of the pro-US Hashemite regime would transform Jordan into a major platform of anti-US global terrorism, igniting a volcanic ripple effect in Israel, transforming its most critical and peaceful 310-mile-long Jordanian border into the most vulnerable and explosive border. ”
He is totally ignorant of the truth. Abdullah totally embraces the Muslem Brotherhood, the parent of Hamas. The King is fully behind the Oct 7th massacre. He collaborated with MBZ and Al Sisi to support the massacre. He has invited Iranian troops in to Jordan and together they have smuggled weapons into Judea and Samaria. Under his leadership, Jordan is already ” a major platform of anti-US global terrorism” and “310-mile Jordanian border” is no longer peaceful but explosive.
He has taken this position by choice as he is trying to avoid being forced to abdicate among other things. He is our eneny, not our friend.
ByAmbassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” October 13, 2024,
The US State Department has rejected the regime-change option (which would gratify most Iranians) since 1978/79, when Iran’s Ayatollahs seized power, assisted by the State Department, which had stabbed the back of the Shah, who had been America’s Policeman in the Gulf.
Instead, the State Department has embraced the diplomatic option, which has generated hundreds of billions of dollars to the Ayatollahs – notwithstanding their systematically anti-US policies – facilitating their surge from a non-leadership regional stature in 1979 to global prominence, militarily and diplomatically in 2024. Furthermore, the diplomatic option has substantially upgraded the Ayatollahs’ support of terror entities such as Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.
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