PREVIEW: JORDAN: WEST BANK: Conversation with colleague Malcolm Hoenlein re a terror attack at the Allenby Bridge, pointing to repeated reports of weapons smuggling from Jordan to jihadists in the West Bank. What is to be done? More later.
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Malcolm Honeline of the Conference of |
| 0:04.7 | Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations about Jordan. |
| 0:08.6 | In an incident at the Allen B Bridge crossing from Israel into Jordan a terror attack 3 KIA. This |
| 0:18.1 | points to the open trouble of smuggling of weapons and other bad actors in and out of Israel via |
| 0:27.7 | Jordan and what is to be done Malcolm speaks to that matter here. |
| 0:31.8 | Certainly this is alarming and will only get worse until |
| 0:37.0 | more tonight. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, Jordan is certainly not doing enough and the you've raised a very important issue because |
| 0:46.8 | there was an attack on the border at the Allen B bridge and three people three |
| 0:51.9 | Israelis were killed. |
| 0:53.2 | The smuggling continues from Jordan. |
| 0:56.7 | They seem to be doing very little to stop it and it's coming from Iran. |
| 1:01.0 | They get weapons into the West Bank. The rhetoric of the government has been terrible, |
| 1:07.1 | even though there's a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel. There's also the smuggling, especially a |
| 1:14.2 | of Capagon, which is going into Jordan, |
| 1:17.9 | where supposedly the addiction is epidemic already, |
| 1:22.4 | but they're also smuggling cash and weapons to the terrorist entities in the |
| 1:27.0 | West Bank and we've seen how extensive their entrenchment is by the raids that Israel has been carrying out just now a week-long |
| 1:35.7 | raid that uncovered tremendous infrastructure weapons and the arrest of many terrorists. |
| 1:43.0 | So there are also, these attacks are considered further evidence that the Jordan Valley poses a security threat |
| 1:57.6 | without a complete Jordanian trust and involvement and that seems to be lacking the demonstrations after the |
| 2:05.8 | killing of the three Israelis in the streets of Amman and elsewhere were of |
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