Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, July 23rd 2025
“Our kingdom is like a bird’s nest on the edge of a cliff – all the winds of the Middle East blow upon it, yet it continues to build, twig by twig, hoping the next storm won’t break its foundation.” — Jordanian intellectual Dr. Ahmad Sultan *** Jordan is a Strategic Asset for Israel: Oded […]
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Oded Ailam Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, July 16, 2025 “Jordan has clearly chosen the moderate Sunni axis – cooperating with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the West while openly opposing Iran. Yet the political, economic, and demographic pressures grow daily.” On a cold winter morning in January 2023, King Abdullah II of […]
Farrah Al Abdallat The Week, June 28, 2025 “In countries like Jordan, where 57.7 per cent of the population favours neutrality in the Israel–Iran conflict and only 5.4 per cent support Israel, the strikes risk fueling broader narratives of Western double standards and regional subjugation.” After 12 days of open conflict between Israel and […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2025 “If anything, the Jordanians likely back the Bedouin tribes who clashed with the Druze. However, Jordan doesn’t want any radicalization.” The Kingdom of Jordan said it welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire in the southern Syrian area of Sweida after days of clashes between the Syrian government and […]
Thursday, February 13th 2025 / Thursday, February 13th 2025
David Horovitz Times of Israel, Feb. 12, 2025 “ … it is clear that Trump’s admirable frustration with a deal under which hostages are “dribbling in” from Gaza three at a time, looking like “Holocaust survivors,” is a public rejection of the protracted phased framework that Netanyahu approved and conveyed to the Biden administration in May, […]
Friday, January 13th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Don’t Call Me Hebrew! The Mysterious Origins of the First Anti-Semitic Slur: Dr. Yitzhaq Feder, The Torah.com, Jan. 9, 2015 — Long before the children of Jacob were called Jews, they were Hebrews (עברים). Despite the commonplace use of this term today (as in Hebrew language – which never appears as such in the Bible!),[1] the Torah does not offer us […]
Laith Alajlouni Atlantic Council, Jan. 4, 2023 “… polling data shows a significant level of dissatisfaction among Jordanians, where 70 percent believe that their country is “governed in the interest of a few.”” On December 14, 2022, a new nationwide strike took place in Jordan four years after another strike toppled the government of Prime Minister […]
Emanuel Fabian The Times of Israel, Dec. 27, 2022 “Unlike Israel’s other frontiers — with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria — its border with Jordan is relatively unguarded due to its sheer length, and lacks significant fencing in many areas, making it an obvious channel for large-scale smuggling.” In the evening of October […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Dec. 29, 2022 “The question now is whether every incident that can be exploited, will be exploited to cause a cycle of endless crisis.” Jordanian King Abdullah II warned on CNN of potential escalation and conflict due to concerns about tensions in Jerusalem, while Israel’s most right-wing government was sworn in. […]
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