Wednesday, June 04, 2008

'Radical pragmatism' and the Jordanian option Middle East Strategy at Harvard
From Adam Garfinkle
MESH

...The Jordanians are afraid that instead of them re-containing Palestinian nationalism, the Islamicizing Palestinian national movement will finally toss the Hashemites into the proverbial dustbin of history. Israel would then be back where it was, geostragically speaking, before June 4, 1967, except instead of a Hashemite state in both east and west banks, with which it had a range of tacit understandings and some significant shared interests, it would have to deal with a far less cooperative neighbor....

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