#Jordan: Gun-running. Jonathan Schanzer- Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial
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#Jordan: Gun-running. Jonathan Schanzer- Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power, a project on the use of financial and economic power as a tool of statecraft.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-imad-adwan-mp-critical-israel-under-arrest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65374743
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I Am The World. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm John Bapsu with my colleague and friend Malcolm Holline, conference of President's |
| 0:10.7 | Major American Jewish Organizations, a puzzle to be solved. |
| 0:14.8 | A Jordanian member of parliament has been arrested by Israel for allegedly trying to smuggle |
| 0:20.4 | weapons into the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:23.7 | What kind of weapons? |
| 0:25.3 | The list is partial, 12 machine guns, 270 other types of firearms, according to a video |
| 0:31.6 | that is unverified. |
| 0:34.0 | We welcome Jonathan Schanzer. |
| 0:36.2 | Jonathan is here to help us unpack this mystery. |
| 0:38.8 | He's a senior vice president for research at the foundation for the defensive democracies. |
| 0:44.0 | Jonathan, machine guns, firearms, arrested at the border. |
| 0:49.0 | Is this something that is a one-off or are we looking at a smuggling pipeline here? |
| 0:53.5 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:55.2 | Good evening. |
| 0:56.2 | I think you're asking the right question. |
| 0:57.8 | I think we don't quite fully understand the answers just yet. |
| 1:02.5 | There is a sort of a partial gag order on the arrest of this member of parliament. |
| 1:08.2 | His name is Imad Al-Adwan, according to all reports he carried with him in an usually |
| 1:14.8 | large amount of weaponry. |
| 1:17.8 | He was trying to claim diplomatic immunity as he tried to walk across the Allen B bridge |
| 1:23.6 | crossing. |
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