Guests, surely, since they often bring revenue, but not subjects of the monarchy.

In Jordan, according to Amnesty International, “a range of political suspects who are frequently arbitrarily arrested” are subjected to “prolonged incommunicado detention” without “access to families and lawyers.” Such is the “balance between freedom and security” in the monarchy, there are restrictions “on freedom of expression and the existence of laws and articles of the Penal Code which permit the sentencing of prisoners of conscience and possible prisoners of conscience, for instance the charge of lèse majesté, which has been used to arrest political opponents, and the Press and Publications Law, which has in the past frequently been used to harass and even imprison journalists.” In other words, if I attempted to write this blog in Amman, I might be arrested, held incommunicado, and tortured. As for the latter:

Continuing reports of the use of torture or ill-treatment both of political and of common law suspects. Such torture is facilitated by pre-trial incommunicado detention and a lack of the safeguards which should ensure the thorough and prompt investigation of allegations of torture and compensation for those who have suffered such treatment at the hands of the security forces.

It is illegal to demonstrate in Jordan. “During the two months following the 11 September attacks, the Jordanian authorities arrested and held in incommunicado detention a number of people who had been involved in demonstrations, including demonstrations opposing the bombing of Afghanistan,” complains Amnesty International. “Dozens of others, most of them suspected of links with Islamist groups, were also arrested and held in incommunicado detention. The pre-trial incommunicado detention of political detainees in Jordan is not a new concern…. Two weeks after attacks on the US, the Jordanian authorities introduced changes to the Penal Code expanding the definition of ‘terrorism’, introducing numerous loosely-defined offences, restricting freedom of expression and the press, and expanding the scope of offences punishable by the death penalty and life imprisonment. The new Law entitled Law Amending the Penal Code (Provisional Law No. 54, 2001) which was hastily promulgated through a provisional royal decree in the absence of Parliament, became effective on 2 October 2001, immediately after approval by King ‘Abdallah bin Hussein of Jordan.”

Such “royal decrees” are necessary due to the fact so many Jordanians are opposed to “free trade” in the guise of the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement and U.S.-created qualifying industrial zones. As many Jordanians understand, such “free trade” (more accurately described as global piracy) is in the process of destroying their traditional “mom and pop” industries. After sucking Jordan dry, the globalists will move on the next host, as all parasites eventually do. If Jordanians protest against these blood-sucking policies, they take the risk of “incommunicado detention” and “torture or ill-treatment.” According to Jordan’s royalty, this is a “balance between freedom and security” (freedom for globalist neolibs, the security forces coming down hard on anybody who complains about being taken to the cleaners).

“If Iraqis want a king, [Prince] Hassan of Jordan could be their man,” wrote the neocon Michael Rubin in 2002 (Hassan is the brother of the late King Hussein of Jordan and a blood relative of the Iraqi Hashemite family) and David Wurmser “wrote Tyranny’s Ally [in 1999], an AEI-published book devoted largely to the idea of restoring the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq. Today Rubin is a key Department of Defense official overseeing U.S. policy toward Iraq, and Wurmser is a high-ranking official working for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, himself a leading neoconservative ideologue,” writes Robert Dreyfuss for the American Prospect.

In fact, the neocons want to eventually install Hashemite-like princelings all across a war ravaged and splintered Middle East. “The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking,” writes Israel Shahak in a translation of Oded Yinon’s A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties (Yinon was an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office). “For example, Ze’ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha’aretz (and probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic) writes about the ‘best’ that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: ‘The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi’ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part’ (Ha’aretz 6/2/1982). Actually, this aspect of the plan is very old.”

Indeed, it is a very old Zionist plan, one that does not take reality into consideration—the Middle East is a potpourri of intermixed ethnic, tribal, and religious groups and to “break down” nations “into small units” will require a lot of ethnic cleansing, that is to say a blood bath will be the result. In fact, the situation in Iraq—violence between Sunnis and Shi’ites and Kurds—is working its way toward a blood bath and ultimately civil war, as planned. If you can imagine this situation across the whole of the Arab and Muslim Middle East, you have an idea of what the neocons and Zionists have in mind.

Finally, it should be noted that the effete Hashemite monarchy in Jordan is not in favor of the Zionist plan to balkanize the neighborhood. “Crown Prince Hassan mentioned Mr. Yinon’s article in a recent interview and provided an English translation to this reporter,” writes David Ignatius of the War Street Journal. “Prince Hassan contends that the article illustrates the desire of Israel’s leadership for ‘Balkanization’ of the Arab world. ‘This is what is so worrying really, is . . . this Balkan idea,’ the crown prince said. He called Mr. Yinon’s article ‘a recipe for ethnic and sectarian breakup’… the Arab reaction to the article may indicate more about Arab fears than the article itself does about Israeli intentions.”

In fact, Israeli ethnic cleansing began in 1948 with the adoption of Plan Dalet, including Operation Nachshon, Operation Har’el, Operation Yiftach, Operation Misparayim, Operation Yevussi, Operation Chametz, Operation Makkabi, Operation Barak, Operation Ben-Ami, and Operation Qilshon (Pitchfork).

For the Israeli Zionists, ethnic cleansing is second nature, so long as it is carried out under the cover of war. And the American neocons have promised to deliver World War Four, as they call it (the Cold War was World War Three to their way of thinking). If Syria and Iran can be attacked, they will begin to realize their demented efforts.