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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Jordan’s government, caught between its majority-Palestinian population and its close cooperation with Israel and the United States, has arrested at least 1,500 people since early October, according to Amnesty International."
Jordan remembers the PLO’s 1970 attempted coup, resulting in thousands of Palestinians killed or expelled & the PLO being driven out of Jordan. demographics are overwhelmingly powerful, sometimes; witness poor Lebanon.