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Why We Should Watch Jordan: Kerry Makes Surprise Visit to Jordan Over Talks

By C. J. Refsland on March 7, 2014 • ( 1 )

(Israel National News) US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jordan on Friday for talks with King Abdullah II on the ongoing talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), a US spokeswoman travelling with him announced. Full Article

I read a report yesterday that Israel and the PA had received copies of ‘kerry’s’ peace treaty. Today kerry is evidently meeting with Jordan’s King again. Jordan has said in the recent past that they wouldn’t agree to the PA taking over security of the Jordan Valley in 10 years as proposed by kerry and obama. Remember Jordan used to control Jerusalem before the 1967 war. This is significant and bears watching.

A few things we know about Jordan’s History with the West Bank & Jerusalem:

In 1948 the Jordanian Arab Legion under Sir John Bagot Glubb, entered ‘Palestine’ and secured the Arab area and then Jerusalem as ordered by the UN partition plan.
On September 22, 1948, the All-Palestine Government was established in Gaza captured by Egypt. On September 30, the First Palestine Congress, which saw Palestine as part of Syria, denounced the Gaza “government.”The December 1948 Jericho Conference, a meeting of prominent Palestinian leaders and King Abdullah, voted in favor of annexation into what was then Transjordan.
The remainder of the area designated as part of an Arab state under the UN Partition Plan was partly occupied by Egypt (Gaza Strip), partly occupied and annexed by Israel (West Negev, West Galilee, Jaffa). The intended international enclave of Jerusalem was divided between Israel and Jordan. The Jordanians immediately expelled all the Jewish residents of East Jerusalem.
All but one of the 35 synagogues in the Old City were destroyed over the course of the next 19 years, either razed or used as stables and chicken coops.
Many other historic and religiously significant buildings were replaced by modern structures.
The ancient Jewish cemetery on Mount of Olives was desecrated, and the tombstones were used for construction, paving roads and lining latrines; the highway to the Intercontinental Hotel was built on top of the site.
Jordan formally annexed the West Bank on April 24, 1950, giving all residents automatic Jordanian citizenship. West Bank residents had already received the right to claim Jordanian citizenship in December 1949.
On July 27, 1953, King Hussein of Jordan announced that East Jerusalem was “the alternative capital of the Hashemite Kingdom” and would form an “integral and inseparable part” of Jordan. In an address to parliament in Jerusalem in 1960, Hussein called the city the “second capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan”.
In 1950, the British extended formal recognition to the union between the Hashemite Kingdom and that part of Palestine under Jordanian occupation and control – with the exception of Jerusalem. The British government stated that it regarded the provisions of the Anglo-Jordan Treaty of Alliance of 1948 as applicable to all the territory included in the union. Despite Arab League opposition, the inhabitants of the West Bank became citizens of Jordan.
Unlike any other Arab country to which they fled after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Palestinian refugees in the West Bank (and on the East Bank) were given Jordanian citizenship on the same basis as existing residents. However, many of the refugees continued to live in camps and relied on UNRWA assistance for sustenance. Palestinian refugees constituted more than a third of the kingdom’s population of 1.5 million.

The rest is History. As soon as Israel won the 6 day war, they turned the Temple Mount back to the Muslim WAQF. And now it seems like this plan of kerry and obama is working very hard to reverse the results achieved in 1967. There is more here than meets the eye.

Credit to Wikipedia