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Subject: Jordan Makes A Threat
SYSOP    2/27/2015 5:46:33 AM
 
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Nate Dog    Jordan in a ny nutshell   2/27/2015 8:43:19 AM
Essentially the worlds largest presidential guard.
Hence Jordan's fear of having to engage ISIL. If they do get heavily involved, they'll end up facing strife both from an external source as well as internally.
Jordan is about 7 million Palestinians ruled by a million or so Bedouins, led by the Hashamites. They don't get along
 
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trenchsol       2/27/2015 11:53:37 AM
Nate Dog, I am a bit confused. I thought that Palestinians are, actually, ethnic Jordanians rather than the opposite. I understood that there is no such thing as 'ethnic Palestinian'. My father who often traveled ME and Africa on business in 70's and 80's also said that.
 
So, why would all those Palestinians or Jordanians support IS ? Some of them do, no doubt. I've seen some videos of Arabs (even Hamas) mocking IS and I understood that IS is considered 'dumb' and sort of 'rednecks' among Arab majority.
 
Video made by Hamas was, actually, not bad, it made me laugh.
 
 
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Nate Dog    IS Sunnis doing well   2/28/2015 10:12:05 AM
Isn't all that common.
Despite propaganda they do circle jerkoffs over, they know how poorly Sunni Arabs do most of the time. ISIL bucked that trend. Jordan's been petrified of a Palestinian uprising and has quelled several over the years. Biggest one was in 1970, which resulted in a mass exodus of Sunnis out of Jordan, they ended up in Lebanon, which was very accepting of Refugees, something unique in the Arab world. Im pretty sure the rest of the Arabs look at Lebanon for an example of what not to do. Hence most Arab refugees in the Arab world staying refugees for generations.
Not ethnically divided, but Palestinians are culturally different from most other Arabs. And shunned. No one likes them. Jordan is their natural home.  
As to why they'd support ISIL, not so much supporting ISIL as spontaneously rising against the rulers while they are distracted elsewhere.
 
 
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Vulture       3/1/2015 4:02:47 PM
Most Jordanians are actually Palestinian (as in mongrels who colonized Ottoman Palestinia as refugees)
 
The rulers of Jordan are Bedouin from Arabia and  were known as Hashemites.  Jordan's elite military is mostly non palestinian (so royalist jordanian culture ).   As stated the "royal guard" aka all elite joranian units primary duty is too keep the palestinians from a coup like Arafat tried in 1970.
 
 
 
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