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Intervención del rey de Jordania, Abdalá II (en el centro), durante la Cumbre de Paz de El Cairo, Egipto (21/10/2023). Foto: ©Royal Hashemite Court / Handout/Anadolu vía Getty Images

Tema

La paz firmada entre Jordania e Israel en 1994 es cada vez más fría. Las acciones de las fuerzas armadas y los colonos israelíes en Cisjordania, sumadas al asalto militar de Gaza, amenazan la estabilidad de Jordania y el propio tratado de paz con Israel.

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El Reino de Jordania está acostumbrado a vivir al borde del precipicio. Su vecindario es uno de los más conflictivos del mundo y los recursos del país son escasos. Sin embargo, el estallido de violencia a gran escala en Gaza, tras el ataque de Hamás contra Israel el 7 de octubre, plantea un desafío existencial para el reino hachemita.…  Seguir leyendo »

Protesters filming an evening prayer dedicated to Gaza during a pro-Palestine demonstration in Amman, October 18, 2023. Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg/Getty Images

We are at day forty-one of the Israeli retaliation against the Gaza Strip, following Hamas’s surprise attack on October 7. In response to the killing of 1,200 and the kidnapping of about 240 Israelis, Israel has now killed more than 11,000 residents of Gaza—most of them women, children, and the elderly. Thousands more are presumed dead under collapsed buildings; tens of thousands have suffered life-altering injuries. According to the UN, 1.6 million residents of Gaza have been displaced from their homes; 42 percent of all housing has been damaged or destroyed. Hospitals in Gaza are now—as their staff and humanitarian agencies predicted from the start—collapsing, running out of fuel and supplies; patients, including premature babies on incubators, are dying.…  Seguir leyendo »

At a protest against the United States’ Middle East peace plan on May 28, 2019, near the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, a placard reads in Arabic, “Kushner, Jordan is neither to buy nor to sell.” (Andre Pain/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK)

The recent visit of Jared Kushner to Amman left many Jordanians worried that the Kushner plan, or President Trump’s alleged “deal of the century,” will try to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Jordan’s expense.

Less than a year ago, Jordanians were on edge over rumors regarding a Trump administration peace plan, including a potential confederation between Jordan and Palestinian territories — a proposal that was floated as new but was in fact quite old and a nonstarter for Jordan. Even as a political crisis in Israel could jeopardize the plan, regional meetings and summits on the horizon have Jordanians concerned about what the Trump administration has in store.…  Seguir leyendo »

This week’s stabbing attack at the Lion’s Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, in which two Israeli border police officers were injured and their assailant was killed, is an ominous signal of growing strains around the city’s Holy Esplanade (Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif). Tensions and clashes in and around the Esplanade are common during Muslim and Jewish holidays, at times leading to violence far from the site itself. It is worrying that two months before Passover and the holy month of Ramadan, there are already signs of escalation at the site, after a considerable period of relative calm.

The weeklong Jewish Passover holiday, during which many Temple activists will seek to enter the Esplanade, begins on 10 April; Ramadan commences slightly more than a month afterward, on 26 May.…  Seguir leyendo »