Jordan: A family dispute or a foreign-backed plot?

"No one expected the controversy to escalate to a point where the king would order the army and the mukhabarat to raid Prince Hamzah’s palace and place him under house arrest."

A protester holds a poster of Jordan's King Abdullah as he takes part in a human chain during a sit-in against the annexation of parts of the West Bank by Israel, in Amman, Jordan, June 27, 2020.

(photo credit: REUTERS/MUHAMMAD HAMED)

ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH

APRIL 6, 2021 07:42

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