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Former minister Bassam Al-Amoush warns region enters dangerous strategic phase targeting Jordan directly. He says reading regional scene requires realism amid rapid developments. He cites global power’s disregard for killing of more than 70,000 in Gaza and notes former US president Donald Trump’s remarks viewing Gaza as ‘Riviera’ run by his companies.

Al-Amoush says major threat now is pressure on Jordan and Egypt to receive Gaza residents under ‘forced displacement’. He warns of land seizures, arrests, home demolitions and uprooting of trees in West Bank, alongside Israeli narrative citing possession of Jordanian nationality by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians there. He says this opens path to plan pushing West Bank residents toward Jordan.

He adds Trump, Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir ‘speak same language’. Gaza deal sponsored by Trump returned Israeli captives while bombing never stopped.

Al-Amoush questions Jordan’s ability to withstand pressure with debt above JD100bn and reliance on US support for weapons. He says lack of military capability enhancement puts Jordan at risk amid destruction of neighbouring Arab states since Arab Spring and Iraq’s occupation.

On domestic politics, he says political money declines, party engineering fails to deliver, and current parliament proves individual MPs burden state. He says previous parliament showed conduct unfit for legislature.

He argues exit from this sensitive stage requires early, fair elections based on programmatic competition, paving way for political parliament capable of producing political government instead of ‘employee governments’.

Al-Amoush says Jordan faces clear threat and Netanyahu hides no ambition for Greater Israel. He says saving country is necessity amid rising poverty, unemployment, drugs and crime, while some pursue positions and benefits as country needs protection and reform before it is too late.