So what do you think, could be a problem for Israel? ISIL jihadists open new front in Baghdad push AFP By Ammar Karim 5 hours ago Baghdad (AFP) - A powerful jihadist group inspired by Al-Qaeda has opened a new battlefront with Iraqi security forces that could see it try to push into Baghdad, officials and analysts warn. The push by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) into the Abu Ghraib area, sparking clashes in nearby Zoba and Zaidan, as well as a failed assault on a military camp in Yusifiyah, illustrate the groups ambition, even with Fallujah under military siege. The objective appears to be to use this Anbar base as a launching pad for expansive operations towards the federal government in Baghdad, said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. Entering Baghdad is impossible, this is not logical, said Brigadier General Saad Maan, spokesman for the interior ministry and the Iraqi capitals security command centre. They do not have the power, and we have huge military reinforcements to stop them. Our military has launched attacks against them on a daily basis in the Fallujah suburbs, and they have suffered lots of casualties. The siege of Fallujah will continue until their gathered forces are depleted, the official said. Fallujah is the last stronghold of ISIL in Anbar. ***************************************** Although the news wants you to think that this is an attack set up for Baghdad, I would contend another agenda. There once was proposed a two state solution in Syria with the north controlled by Assad and the south to be held by the Rebels. With this scenario it leaves Israel vulnerable to an outright attack from its northern neighbors. When Morsi was first elected he call for Jihad on Jerusalem, and he was the leader of the Muslim brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood who is one of the main participants in the Arab Spring and the Syrian Conflict. As Assad and Hezbollah have proven a strong adversary for the Salafists and Jihadists forcing an alternate rout to Israel. an article in the Jordan times supports this theory. Remember also that Jordan borders Israel. ******************************************** IMF to lend Jordan $264 mn Jordan News.Net Saturday 5th April, 2014 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it will transfer $264 million to Jordan in April as part of a loan to the kingdom, the state-run Petra news agency reported Saturday. The amount is part of a $2.1 billion loan the IMF agreed to extend to Jordan to help it cope with an increasing number of Syrian refugees and reduce the pressure on its budget, according to Xinhua. The IMF said Jordan came under pressure in light of the Syrian crisis and the cut on its natural gas supplies from Egypt. Jordan has housed about 600,000 Syrian refugees, which added pressure on the kingdoms already limited resources such as water, health care, and energy. Jordan now imports about 96 percent of its energy needs annually. It has stopped receiving gas from Egypt since mid 2013 after the pipeline in Egypt was bombed several times. The country has been forced to expend more on its energy imports. - See more at: jordannews.net/index.php/sid/220865599/scat/a9fba0694eef4824/ht/IMF-to-lend-Jordan-264-mn#sthash.xF8ugFSy.dpuf Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood maintains grassroots support By Osama al-Sharif Published on Al-Monitor In the first true test of its influence and popularity following last year’s dramatic events in Egypt, Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood celebrated with its March 27 electoral victory the kingdom’s largest professional union in what observers described as a free and fair election. Islamist candidates and their allies won more than 70% of the seats in the 100,000-strong teachers union across the nation. Their opponents — nationalists and leftists — were unable to snatch this important association from the Islamists for the second time in three years. Minister of Political Development Khaled al-Kalaldeh admitted in press interviews that there is now no “parallel to the Islamists” in the political arena. His statements underlined what many observers have always believed: that the Muslim Brotherhood remains the only organized group in Jordan that has genuine influence over the public. - See more at: en.gerasanews/jordans-muslim-brotherhood-maintains-grassroots-support-opinion/#sthash.4h8neKcO.dpuf remember this? Jordan: Sheikh discusses jihad against Germany, demands jizya from non-Muslims, calls for jihad to annihilate Israel Robert Spencer Dec 12, 2011 at 12:26pm Islamic antisemitism, Jihad doctrine or this? Palestinian Authority Calls For ‘Jihad in Jerusalem’ January 15, 2014 Jordan opposition calls for Israel peace treaty to be frozen over al-Aqsa debate Islamic Action Front urges Jordanian government to act as Knesset prepares to debate Israeli sovereignty over mosque Agence France-Presse in Amman theguardian, Tuesday 25 February 2014 06.27 EST Why the Peace Talks Are Making Jordan Panic King Abdullah of Jordan is displaying discernible signs of panic over the future of his kingdom. Dismissing any notion that it might become an “alternative homeland” for Palestinians, he recently declared to high Jordanian officials: “Jordan is Jordan and Palestine is Palestine and nothing but that, not in the past or the future.” According to Arutz Sheva (February 24), the Jordanian state news agency Petra reported that in a meeting with his parliamentary leaders the king warned of “talk about the so-called alternative homeland” for Palestinians. “This, God willing, will be the last time we talk about this subject.” There is, apparently, increasing apprehension in Amman lest Secretary of State Kerry’s proposed framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority might implicate Jordan. The king is worried that Jordan would be required to accept even more West Bank Palestinians than it already has (now comprising a majority of the population). He is hopeful that any peace agreement will include the transfer of Palestinians from Jordan to the new Palestinian state. The first indication of concern was back in 2007 with the revocation of Jordanian citizenship of thousands of Palestinians, who were declared to be “stateless refugees.” (Imagine the international outcry if Israel acted similarly toward its own Palestinian citizens.) Further revealing of their precarious status in the Hashemite kingdom, some 340,000 Palestinians are still confined in Jordanian refugee camps. The king has reason to be worried lest Jordan might become the State of Palestine. History reveals why. Back in 1920, when the League of Nations Mandate to govern Palestine was bestowed upon Great Britain, it cited “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and the legitimacy of grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.” Jews were granted the right of settlement throughout “Palestine,” comprising the land east and west of the Jordan River. Great Britain, however, retained the right to “postpone” or “withhold” Jewish settlement east of the Jordan. Two years later, with the creation of Transjordan by the British to reward Prince Abdullah of Arabia for his wartime cooperation, Jewish settlement was restricted to the land – all of it – west of the Jordan. That right has never been rescinded. It includes Hebron no less than Tel Aviv. So it is that Jordanian Palestinians are already at home, east of the Jordan River, which comprises two-thirds of Mandatory Palestine. Surely the resistance of Hashemite monarchs, backed by Bedouin tribes, should not be permitted by the international community to impede Palestinian statehood within the borders of their own national home according to international law. Jordan’s Foreign Minister has firmly declared that his nation will not be an “alternative home for anybody.” That is one way of looking at it. But what if it were to become the national home of the Palestinian people, in Palestine as it was defined nearly a century ago? The result would be two states for two peoples. Loyal followers of the current Hashemite rulers could certainly expect to be treated at least as well as the Palestinians they have governed since 1948, when the Kingdom of Jordan invaded the fledgling Jewish state of Israel. That futile attempt to drive Jews into the sea, in which Jordan’s Arab allies gleefully joined, created the Palestinian refugee problem that has been blamed on Israel ever since. King Abdullah may insist: “Jordan is Jordan and Palestine is Palestine.” History suggest otherwise: Jordan is Palestine. It should welcome Palestinians with open arms, grant them citizenship, vacate the refugee camps and yield to democratic imperatives – precisely as its next-door neighbor Israel did with its new refugees from Arab lands sixty-six years ago. Surely that would mark a dramatic step toward peace now that even Secretary of State Kerry would gladly embrace. ********************************************** So given the apparent choice lose your country to Palestinians, or support a push to eliminate Israel, what do Their choice will be?
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