The fact that they do have business accords and treaties with the Israeli has more to do with the fact that they are neighbors and Israel can basically land lock them, if they want.

They were doing fine until 1994, and less strictly until the early 2010s, so whatever problems they’re solving by trading with Israel are clearly not existential threats. Jordan is too valuable to Western interests for Israel to “landlock them” as you put it. You’d expect an Arab Muslim country to at least boycott Israel, not actively pursue trade relations with them. Given their actions, their rhetoric is meaningless. Now the Jordanian government isn’t run by Zionists obviously, but they clearly give much less of a shit than they want you to think.

I’m curious how you’d say they are more supportive to Israel than say the UK or other European countries, who have -with exemptions- more actively supported the Israeli.

That’s why I said “in the region.”

“But the anti-Hamas figures aren’t people like the Palestinian Authority; the anti-Hamas figures are collaborationist forces with the Israelis."

Implying the PA isn’t a collaborationist force, but also fucking ew.

Upload posts to appropriate communities.

Surprisingly he’s probably the most tolerable autocrat in that part of the world, but to answer your question: As with half the problems in the Middle East, the Brits did it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Jordan_relations

Their rhetoric is passable if you squint, but their actions are really not. It’s a tossup between them, Egypt and the Emirates for the worst Zionist collaborators in the region.

The fact that there’s a whole section titles “economic relations” should tell you all you need to know, but to add insult to injury they helped protect Israel from the April 2024 Iran strikes.

Reset your universe and come back in ~14*10^9 years.

Like?

Oh wait, you helped them happen.

I don’t think Ozma had much role in the decades-long neoliberal exploitation of the working class, the entrenchment of inoffensive focus group politics in the DNC, the persistent rightward shift of the Democratic political establishment or Biden and co. gloating about how much they were helping Israel’s genocide.

Apparently it’s been forgotten that Ozma plastered several communities with articles trashing both Biden and Harris running up to the election.

Imagine posting facts that don’t paint ineffectual proto-fascists as the next best thing since sliced bread. Truly a crime against humanity.

It’s a lot to recipient countries because the American economy is whack, but in terms of American tax revenue, yes it is nothing.

The cuts totaled to like 13 billion dollars, so enjoy your 40$ I guess.

While it’s definitely not helping, the volume of money moving around (less than four million pounds year) is too small to be the only factor at play. (Neo)colonial ambitions, deference to daddy USA and plain inertia probably have at least as much to do with it.

Yawn.

Translation: Me and my fellow Zionist collaborators are doomed because our citizens will notice we’re doing zilch to help Palestinians.

“Arabic is a very angry-sounding language.”

Arabic speaker here and this sounds like the most harmless statement of all time. I mean you’re right in that it was probably more about the emotionally charged concepts than Arabic as a language, but still, I think this is one of those “white people getting mad at other white people when the minority in question wouldn’t think much of it” things.

Not exactly the most surprising outcome of all time.

the cost of living goes up with it, putting us back to where we started.

That’s the common argument, but that’s not what happened down in Mexico. They drastically raised the minimum wage (among a bunch of other reforms) and it had the result of lifting millions out of poverty in six years.

Not breaking any records, but probably ~20 hours. A mix of fasting (the Muslim kind, so from dawn till dusk) and not waking up to eat before dusk can get you that long when it’s the summer and days are long.

Enjoy. Long story short, though: Former terrorist (as in literally the leader of Igrun), founder of Likud and former Israeli PM. He got the prize with Sadat after signing the peace treaty with Egypt and proceeded to bomb Iraq and invade Lebanon three years later.

Oh, you’re right. TIL.

Neither of these are in the Middle East (Mideast ends at Iraq; everything east of that is Central Asia), but also no.