Jordan “The King’s brother prays for rebellion by collusion with the Israeli Mossad”

Abdullah II’s half brother Prince Hamja House Pension
Mossad-born businessman contacts Prince Hamza
The most stable country in the Middle East, tensions over political anxiety

[아시아경제 이현우 기자] Jordan, which is known as the most stable monarchy in the Middle East, is concerned about political anxiety due to the news of the king’s brother’s rebellion and house arrest. The Jordanian government officially announced that Prince Hamza bin Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah II, tried to inspire a revolt by collusion with Mossad, an Israeli intelligence agency. Faced with borders with Iraq, Syria, and Israel, attention is focused on whether the political instability in Jordan, the most pro-Western country in the Arab world, will lead to worsening the civil war in the Middle East.

According to foreign media such as the Associated Press on the 4th (local time), Jordan Deputy Prime Minister Aiman ​​Sapadi said in a statement on the day that “the intervention and communication of Prince Hamza and foreign forces were captured.” However, the king decided that it would be best to solve it within the royal family,” he explained to the reason for the house arrest of Prince Hamja. Earlier, Prince Hamza, through the BBC, revealed that he was in house arrest and was being framed unfairly, causing controversy around the world.

According to Axios, the Jordanian government contacted Prince Hamza shortly after receiving house arrest, and the person he contacted was identified as an Israeli businessman from a former Mossad operative, and he suggested that he send a private jet to take the prince’s family to Europe. I think I lost. Prince Hamza is known to have explained that he is a personal friend and has nothing to do with Mossad.

Prince Hamza was the next successor to the throne as the king of Jordan until 2004, but when Abdullah II, his half-brother, took the status of the royal priesthood from Prince Hamza in 2004 and rebuked his eldest son, Prince Hussein, as the new crown prince, a conflict arose between the king and the king. However, at the time, Prince Hamza did not stand against Abdullah II, and no special conflict has been exposed since then.

As a result, Western countries as well as in the Middle East are concerned about possible political instability in Jordan. Jordan is located in a geopolitical point bordering Iraq, Israel, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and is the most pro-Western country in the Arab state. Because it helped. There are concerns that if the political instability in Jordan intensifies, it will adversely affect civil wars in Syria and Iraq.

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