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#Jordan: Stuck in time and angry. Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#Jordan: Stuck in time and angry. Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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0:40.2

Malcolm Home Line, Conference of President's Major American Jewish organizations, and we're

0:45.0

very pleased to go to Jordan in the 21st century thanks to Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation

0:51.5

for the Defense of Democracies. Rights and essay taking us back to the conflict zone of

0:57.2

mid-20th century, all the way up to where we are right now, which is this mystery. Jonathan

1:02.8

a good evening to you. I read your essay and I think to myself, Abraham Accords, good

1:07.4

news all around and yet Jordan looks to be stuck in time somewhere in the 20th century

1:13.0

and bitter about it. Why is this? Is there one explanation Jonathan? Good evening to you.

1:19.3

Good evening, John. Yeah, this essay was the results of several months of research, including

1:23.9

a trip that I took to Jordan in the fall. What we are watching right now is that as Israel

1:31.2

finds itself in relationships that continue to grow warmer with the UAE, with Bahrain,

1:38.4

with Morocco, and perhaps even other countries like Saudi Arabia for that matter quietly.

1:44.5

All of these good news stories are happening. We're watching what was the warmest piece

1:50.5

that Israel enjoyed, but is now growing frigid. I believe that this is the result of the

1:57.0

large percentage of Palestinians living inside the Hashemite Kingdom. The Hashemites say

2:02.9

that it's somewhere around 50 percent, I think realistically it's probably closer to

2:07.0

75 or even 80 percent of the population comes from Palestinian descent. And so it's very

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