MER EDITORIAL:
J O R D A N I A N
R E A L I T I E S
and THE "AMAZING" HUSSEIN
MER - WASHINGTON - 5 Feb:
Jordan is a country that never should have been but which has endured. A quite a price
however. For the young Winston Churchill and the British Empire it was a temporary
arrangement made on behalf of the defeated Hashemite collaborators from Arabia, one
designed to stabilize British control of the region against the French. For the fledgling
Zionist movement the Hashemites quickly became the secret conspiratorial connection with
they brilliantly manipulated to achieve their goal of "Jewish" independence
while vanquishing the mutual Zionist/Hashemite enemy, the Palestinians.
King Hussein was a teenager who "ascended" the Amman throne after being at
the side of his fallen grandfather, assassinated by Palestinians for his treachery in the
heart of Jerusalem. No betting man in the 1950s would have thought the boy-king would have
survived to die a natural death in 1999.
The West's chicanery in the early years of this century in carving out Transjordan from
Palestine, Kuwait from Iraq, Lebanon from Syria has succeeded in keeping the Arab world
twisted and disfigured, weak and humbled, disjointed and despairing. Western dissection
has succeeded in preventing the "Arab world" from uniting to build their own
"United" country and make good use of their own resources and potential power.
The cost to the peoples of the Arab world has been enormous -- in blood, in treasure, in
history.
Underlying the geographical concerns were of course commercial ones. And here too the
control of and looting of "the prize", black gold, has also been achieved by the
West. Just think about it, Americans buy a gallon of gas -- pumped from the Arabian
desert, transported half-way around the world, refinied into oil and gas products, and
then distributed to their local gas stations -- cheaper than the price of a gallon of
bottled water at their local supermarkets!
And beyond this, even the petrodollars paid for the oil are squandered by the Western
"client regimes" whose life-styles are obnoxious, who recycle most of it to
Western banks, purchase vast quantities of Western products including Western arms. All of
this further enriches the West while further impoverishing the "Mid-East" --
itself a British colonial term that stuck.
Just two weeks ago the amazing Hussein was deceiving his rather gullible and emotional
people one final time in this extended story of Hashemite lies, deceptions, and
collaboration that goes back to the time of Lawrence of Arabia. He returned to his Kingdom
pronouncing himself "totally cured", "flying" his own plane, intent on
doing the final deed urged on him by his American wife, as well as by the Americans and
the Israelis whom are now British-successors as the protectors and guarantors of this last
remaining Hashemite throne.
Despite all the propaganda otherwise, despite all American and British efforts
otherwise, the "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" is tettering -- not at the top but
rather at its foundations. Fully 30% of Jordanians are unemployed. The Muhabarat, the
secret police, are omnipresent; repressession and intrique everywhere. The small and
incestuous Jordanian elite that surrounds Hussein have drained the country into their own
bank accounts, decimated the once growing middle class, and today preside over a growing
majority population that is both impoverished and Palestinian. It is for these reasons
Hussein of Amman found himself "supporting" Saddam of Baghdad at the time of the
Gulf War just a few years ago, lest he be overthrown.
The betting man of the 1990s needs to think long and hard about the reign of Abdullah
II, the great grandchild of the Abdullah, son of Hussein of Mecca, who cannivingly traded
a throne in the desert for the area west of the Jordan now known as Israel; and who then
fell to the assassins bullet while "praying" in the very Jerusalem his heir was
to then lose for the Arabs and the Muslims. MAB
