Jordan to resume ties with Syria? How media speculation distorts reality.

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Nasib Border Crossing, a crucial gateway between Syria and Jordan managed by the Syrian Army, was captured by Al-Nusra in April 2015. Recently it was retaken by the Syrian Army. For purposes of self-interest, Jordanian military is reportedly negotiating with Syria (via Russia) the possibility of the Syrian Army managing Nasib Border again, as before.

Arab news & opinion website, Rai-al-Youm, has misinterpreted this story as Jordan and Syria establishing regular ties and cooperation. According to Rai-al-Youm, Jordan currently views the "Syrian case handed to Russia" by the U.S. which has stopped assisting terrorists "and hence, Amman is changing its policies on Syria." Laughable! Makes one wonder how professional news sites can spew such unprofessional rubbish. There are at least eleven U.S. bases across Syria and it's impossible Jordan wouldn't know that. In fact, a U.S. military convoy arrived in south Hasaka on August 15 to assist al-Nusra Front in Deir Ezzor. With ISIL on the verge of defeat, al-Nusra is getting stronger.  Dozens of smaller AQ groups – many of them with new titles never heard of before – are joining it to prevent the Syrian Army advancing to Homs, Deir Ezzor and Raqaa. Only three days ago, al-Nusra announced it was opening a second terrorist training camp in southern Syria. As recently as last June, Jordan was considering opening a front in southern Syria for military offensive to appease Donald Trump.

Rai-al-Youm is attempting to downplay the fact that the British appointed puppet kings of Jordan do not have the entitlement to make independent foreign policy decisions. Abdullah is firmly embedded in the US/UK/Saudi/Israeli camp. Without lifelong economic and military assistance from his bosses, his country would look no different from Afghanistan or Mali. Since the start of the Syrian war, Jordan has been an important venue for training tribal salafist rebels by CIA officials based in Amman. With Salafism growing in Jordan, Abdullah's position as a nincompoop, oafish lackey of Riyadh is appreciated by various segments of the Jordanian public .. though just as many hate him and his family for drowning the country in a sea of corruption.

Jordan is eager to keep radicals out of its borders, yet for six years it has been loyally following orders supporting the proxy war in Syria led by those very radicals. Neither does Abdullah have the grit nor the desire to dissuade his ally, Benyamin Nethanyahu, from helping Nusra Front fighters in the makeshift hospitals of occupied Golan Heights.

In 2011 Abdullah was loud as ever calling for Assad to step down. An apt response to this half British son of the late top CIA agent of the Middle-East came from Egyptian journalist, Hamdi Qandil: "You learn Arabic before telling an Arab president, a nationalist and resistance leader like Bashar al-Assad to step down."