Free Trade and Jordan

MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 10/24:

It's a pay-off of course.  Costs the U.S. very little since Jordan is a very 
small place.  But it's a potential big boost for Jordan's economy and it 
helps 
insure that Abdullah II will stay firmly in the U.S. orbit -- as if the 
half-British 
King whose English is better than his Arabic had any other notions.  
Actually, 
the U.S. granting of complete "free trade" status to Jordan today is more 
about 
keeping Abdullah II in power than about any worries he would defect back to 
his 
own people while on the throne.

It's also another powerplay by the Israeli/Jewish lobby, without whose 
encouragement Bill Clinton wouldn't be signing anything with Abdullah II here 
in Washington today.

Abdullah I was brought to Transjordan by the British in the 1920s (he has 
never even visited there previously).  Transjordan morphed into Jordan after 
Abdullah made secret agreements with the Zionists and Whitehall to carve up 
Palestine between them.  Then the first Jordanian King passed on into history 
when he was assassinated by Palestinians at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem 
as he moved toward even closer relations with Israel.

How fitting it is that it is Abdullah II who is now being paid off by the 
Americans (and the Israelis) for continuing in the tradition of the Hashemite 
Family and being essentially a Western agent in the heart of the Arab world. 
In recent years, as thanks for help during the Gulf War, for helping with the 
"Peace Process", and then for signing the formal Jordanian-Israeli peace, 
considerable economic, military, and intelligence benefits have already 
flowed to Jordan. 

And now, even while the Palestinian people are being assaulted by American 
supplied helicopter gunships, Abdullah II has come to Washington to sign 
today's 
agreement at the White House.  Nothing seems to phase these Hashemites when 
it 
comes to lining their own pockets and collecting their pay-offs -- they do it 
even while the Arab world is enraged not fearing it seems that they will be 
told 
to stay in Washington rather than going back to Amman.
  
For more serious and no-nonsense background into the history of Jordan and 
the realities of the Hashemite Monarchy go to:  
http://www.MiddleEast.Org/jordan.htm