Peloni: Despite the popular ruse pursued by the Hashemites, they have yet to deal with the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan as they pretend to have done. The terror organization maintains its presence, support and influence in the country, and in particular, the largest political party in Jordan’s parliament is none other than the Muslim Brotherhood party, the Islamic Action Front. Despite the attempt to prove otherwise, this organization maintains its presence in Jordan’s government. The Hashemites continue to present an aura of having rejected this source of radicalism in its govt and society, but instead of dealing with the organization as an organization, they are targeting individuals likely to satisfy US demands, leaving the Islamist infrastructure itself in place. It is not for no reason that Israel has seen fit to raise a protective wall along its eastern border, and the increasingly routine incursions by terrorists from Jordan has made this measure, for what it is worth, necessary. The solution of course is not to pretend that any wall might represent a rational solution to radicalism being fomented on the far side of that wall, but rather for the Hashemites in Jordan to finally take responsibility and end its mollycoddling cooperation and protection of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and ban it in its entirety, once and for all.
Mudar Zahran
- Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood militants attacked the Israeli border tonight, further escalating an already volatile security situation along the Jordan–Israel frontier. According to our sources, the attackers are operatives of the Muslim Brotherhood terror group, which remains legally registered and active in Jordan despite being designated a terrorist organization by executive order issued by President Trump.
- Live fire was used during the attack, with shots fired toward Israeli positions from the Jordanian side of the border as the attackers attempted to cross into Israeli territory while shooting. The IDF responded immediately with defensive fire, while Israeli helicopters and drones were deployed and remain airborne as we speak, conducting active surveillance to locate the perpetrators.
- Security alerts were triggered across southern Wadi Araba, after the Israeli Home Front Command activated sirens following suspected armed infiltration from the Jordanian border.
- Israeli special operations forces were rapidly deployed along the border, supported by combat helicopters and Israeli Air Force drones, to secure the area and prevent further attacks.
- The Muslim Brotherhood terror group maintains deep and longstanding ties with the General Director of Jordanian Intelligence, Ahmad Hosni Hatouqai. This attack could not have occurred without either a direct green light from senior officials or, at best, severe negligence and systemic incompetence.
- We have warned for months that Jordan’s borders have become a growing threat to Israel, driven by the regime’s continued partnership and coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood terror group, including organized communication networks and operational facilitation.
- Jordanian intelligence must be held fully responsible and accountable, particularly given the extensive U.S. financial aid, training, and support it receives. Allowing the Muslim Brotherhood terror group to operate legally under these conditions is indefensible.
- The Hashemite regime must be forced to ban the Muslim Brotherhood terror group and all affiliated entities. Tonight’s attack further demonstrates that the situation in Jordan is unstable and unsustainable, and that delaying action only increases the risk of wider escalation.
Rafi
You think you can arbitrarily impugn my character and without even acknowledging your abuse you turn next to attack a contributor on this site without cause or support of your claims against either of us. Your ad hominem attacks characterize a clear motivation which I will not tolerate. Opinions are not ad hominem and ad hominem are not opinions. I warned you. I regret that you did not listen.
@Rafi
You think the king is the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t. Isn’t that the old Conception speaking? I think it is time to shed this old bullshit and deal with reality as it is. The king is no friend, and he never was. The Muslim brotheroodd needs to be supplanted by something else in Jordan adn the king seems happy to keep things as they are with small tweeks. That is no good for me. He has to go.
@ Saudi
Okay who? The mosiach who lives in England?
@Rafi
@Saudi
@Jalal
With all due respect to you all, you are missing the real point here. The rule of the Hashemites has outlived its sell-by date, and they will soon collapse under their own weight of corruption. As Mudar has noted over the past year, Trump will not bring down the Hashemites, but he will not save them from their own destruction. When this does happen, as it happened in Syria, it is important that a successor regime be recognized as useful and cooperative with the West, one which will ban Islamists and support the needs of the people while recognizing the truth that Jordan is Palestine, ie it was cut from the Jewish Homeland specifically for the Arabs living in Palestine. This presents solutions which have significant benefits for a US administration dedicated towards its pivot to Asia. Only Mudar presents this opportunity for the West, ie a Plan B which will eliminate the source of radicalism in a country which borders Syria, Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
@Jalal
On this point, we will have to agree to strongly disagree. The Hashemites do not owe their continued position in Jordan to either negotiations nor to any wisdom. In fact, the only thing keeping Abdullah on the throne in Jordan is the egregious sum of US financial aid which gains the US nothing keeping him on that throne, and while it this sum is intended to support and see to the needs of his subjects, it seems to hardly bring them to the poverty line.
@Peloni
Financial support can be gained from other sources, and the Jordanians can live on dates and in poor conditions until they recover if the US tries to leave the King alone. But I am telling you as a Jordanian that Jordanians love their king and will stand with him.
Actually, Jordan has betrayed every benefactor they have ever had under the Hashemites, and the Americans are their only remaining source of support.
Actually, you are speaking as an Eastern Jordanian, which is a very different perspective from that of the subjugated Pals living in Jordan, in utter squalor whose numbers and sentiments threaten the king’s continued rule over them. This is not in question as it was motivating aspect for the Hashemites to revoke the citizenship of literally millions of Pals despite it being contrary to international norms and laws.
Despite all of this, and in part because of it, the Hashemites days are numbered. When they fall, as Assad fell, we need to have a successor in mind, and that successor should be Mudar Zahran.
@Rafi
Now who sounds like they are pursing a false narrative. I am simply speaking about facts, and the fact is that Mudar speaks to Jews and Arabs alike with the same message and that message has not waivered over the past more than a decade. In fact, Mudar has been speaking frankly and with a consistent voice of friendship for Israel and the Jews. You say his words of friendship are simply what the Jews like to hear. This is a ad hominem statement unless you can support it with evidence that Mudar is speaking in one voice to the Jews and another to the Arabs. I will wait to hear from you on this, and failing any good faith basis for making this false claim I will remove your maligning statement. You have 24hrs. to respond.
Hi, Rafi.
The moshiach who lives in England?? Do you mean Charles III? I didn’t get the memo.
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/jordan-bans-muslim-brotherhood-after-sabotage-plot-uncovered-yv8lhtkv
@Rafi
This is COMPLETELY FALSE!
The IAF is NOT BANNED. They form the largest political faction in Jordan’s Parlaiment, and their members are listed on Jordan’s state website.
You can have what opinions you like, but this is just not factually true.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-884573
@Rafi
If these reports are correct, how is it that the Muslim Brotherhood still has a political party? How is it that their members are still sitting and active in parlaiment. How is it that their assets have not been seized?
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that these reports are masking the reality that the IAF, contrary to what you suggested previously, is still fully functioning and active. You called it a ruse which had been dealt with, but that is not at all true, no matter what you find written in the Israeli, American, Jordanian or any other press.
As I noted before, we don’t have to agree, but I wish you would address the elephant in the room here. Why is the ‘banned’ Muslim Brotherhood still participating in Jordan’s political process if it is truly banned? It is a simple enough question, but you won’t find the answers in the press…Don’t you wonder why that is?
I do not believe what you are saying is accurate about the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordanian Parliament. Islamic Action Front is what they previously ran under and this is now illegal.
@Peloni @Rafi
I think you are referring to Abdul Majid Thuneibat, not Abdul Hamid. I am Jordanian, and I can tell you what Mr Peloni is saying is correct. Because currently we have members of IAF in the parliament. Saleh Al-Armouti, I can give you the official link if you would like to verify that. He is currently a member of the parliament and a member of the IAF.
Would love the official link.
@Rafi
Translate this into English:
http://www.jordanpolitics.org/ar/lower-house-member/293/%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%B4%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B7%D9%8A/5
The silent majority in Jordan is with the IAF and thus MB. The regime is trying to fight that, but it is difficult.
Thank you!! I also believe the regime is trying to fight that!
@Rafi
But if you are right, and the regime is trying to fight the MB, it leaves little excuse for why they should be trusted to be successful in doing so after failing to be successful for the past year. Either they are complicit or they are incapable, either way, the Jordanian border is so porous that a croup of supposed criminals crossed the border while Jordanian border security was either sleeping or simply absent.
I frankly see little comfort in this fact, and make no mistake about it, this fact is why the attacks are continuing to mount from Jordan as well as the body count associated with those attacks.
Perhaps I mistake your own inflection here, but your conclusion carries with it less satisfaction than if the king were tied at the hip with the Brotherhood. The danger here is growing, and the need of capable governance, not incompetence or complicity, is what is needed to deal with this growing danger
The country is about 90% Jew and Israel hating. The King is no buddy, but he is better than if the Muslim Brotherhood were running it.
Until the 1967 war, we were regularly attacked by Jordan. I do not know if you ever lived in Israel but that border has been way worse.
Any alternative regime will not do a better job. The problem is so deep. Many Jordanians believe in MB because, socially, members of MB are good examples of success in professional life in society. For example, excellent students, honest and successful professionals in the medical, science, engineering, etc. Their values are in line with the religious and cultural values of the society. People are convinced of them. The regime is fighting them because they are a hidden, growing power that it cannot control and may pose a threat to the regime, especially to the religious legacy that the regime claims (being from the lineage of the prophet).
@Rafi
By the way, did you believe the claims about the Yemini fields libel while it was being posted in the Israeli press, and the American press, and the Arab press?
I didn’t. And I suspect you probably didn’t either.
Full article is found here: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/jordan-bans-the-muslim-brotherhood-amid-increasing-regional-strife/
https://apnews.com/article/jordan-politics-muslim-brotherhood-parliament-unrest-02d78750d626506f3b989f9a241e6782
Mudar Zahran’s account or narrative is inconsistent with Israeli news.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-884749
@Rafi
Thank you for sharing this, but it changes none of what I wrote below about the MB and the Hashemites nor about your presuming false narratives being posted on this site.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-884573
Thanking you for editing the posting by getting rid of the link to the Times of Israel. Nothing can be confused now.
This posting is made to appear as if this was Times of Israel article claiming the Muslim Brotherhood attached Israel.
Yesterday’s news stated Jordanian police were in pursuit of criminals from Jordan and they crossed the border into Israel. Israeli security then started trying to find these criminals.
This appears to be trying to sell a narrative, even if deception is used. If I am wrong kindly prove to me that I am wrong.
@Rafi
Is that why you think I included the link to the TOI article, to deceive you? Why would you suggest such a thing. I spend a great deal of time and effort in what I do, and I do not do so to promote slight or petty ‘narratives’. Since the link seems to have misdirected your attention, I removed it, but it was not posted for any nefarious reason and I am bristling at your suggestion that it was.
In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood is fully active in Jordan, despite the US designation against them and in spite of their being ‘banned’ for nearly a year now as they control the largest political party in the country as I demonstrated to you in your claim some weeks ago that I was wrong in stating this.
There is a reason that the Hashemites pretend to have banned the Muslim Brotherhood, and have actually even taken steps to confuse people of the reality that their political party was banned as well.
While you may find some comfort in having the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated toady in Amman persist there, I see him as a threat to the safety, security and welfare of Israel. We don’t have to agree on this, but we do have to agree that suggesting a false motivation for what I do is ad hominem and I will not permit such commentary on this site.
Muslim Brotherhood is banned in Jordan by that name and their aliases.
You want to ban me for pointing what I perceived, that is your choice.
So, will Israeli forces be able to cross the border and detain these terrorists, or would that be an act of war? Will the IAF be able to bomb them inside Jordan? Has the UN said anything yet, maybe along the usual lines of, “he only slapped you once. Calm down.”