“The army will respond with all strength and resolve [against] any infiltration attempt to protect our borders and prevent anyone who dares to violate our national security,” the statement said.
This puts Amman in a bind. Jordan is in the news because the US has apparently encouraged Jordan and Egypt to be involved in supplying Lebanon’s energy needs. This could go through Syria, since that’s the most logical land corridor to Lebanon.
Jordan has been trying to stabilize relations with Syria for several years, and the king of Jordan received a call from Syrian regime leader Bashar Assad for the first time last October after many years of silence.
Jordan’s position is complex not only because it is on the border with Syria, with the Syrian Civil War about to spill over for many years. It has also hosted hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Jordan welcomed them as brothers, and many of them even had tribal or family connections because southern Syria and northern Jordan have histories in common. READ MORE
