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October 14, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/14/wpris114.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/14/ixworld.html

Sense of Infallibility Allows Jordan to Take Independent Line

(Telegraph-UK) Robin Gedye - While Jordan's majority Palestinian population rails at Washington's support for Israel, the Amman government pockets billions of dollars in aid from Washington. As rulers of the holy city of Mecca for more than 700 years until 1925, the Jordanian monarchy claims a line of descent from the Prophet Mohammed and Ismail, son of the biblical prophet Abraham. That kind of lineage bestows an infallibility on the Hashemite dynasty that makes decisions such as siding with America and Israel against the populist tide less problematic.

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