Israel worried about Daesh threat to Jordan

Israel has intensely expressed its concerns about Jordan’s destiny due to the shifts the region is witnessing.

Major General Amos Gilad, director of the Political-Military Affairs Bureau at Israel’s Defence Ministry, said: “Jordan may be exposed to attacks by ISIS from the east, and attacks by Al-Qaeda from the north,” using another acronym for Daesh.

Maarif newspaper reported on Wednesday that the US intensified attacks should destroy Daesh in Iraq, forcing the organisation to head west towards Jordan.

According to Gilad, Al-Qaeda has a heavy presence in the south of Syria, which constitutes a further threat to Jordan.

He also noted that there is a risk of Iran colluding against the regime in Jordan, referring to the frankness of the Commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Qassem Suleimani, who made it clear that he has a concern that Jordan could be the start point for combat operations against Israel.

The political commentator on Israeli Channel 2, Audi Siegel, said that the borders with Jordan could turn into a base for jihadists to carry out operations against Israel, after the Egyptian-Israeli wall was constructed.

Siegel also noted, in an article published by Maarif on Wednesday, that Israel has offended Jordan by building a wall along the border, considering that this move would give an impression that Israel has no confidence in the Jordanian regime’s ability.

He went on to demand the Israeli government campaign in favour of Jordan and mobilise the world towards providing urgent support for it, in order to improve its leaders’ ability to address the country’s economic issues and the social and security problems that result from the worsened economic situations.

The wall being built along the Jordanian-Israeli border, Siegel explained, does practically mean annexing the West Bank to Israel; stressing that the West Bank borders starts from north of the Dead Sea and continue until the Palestinian-Jordanian-Syrian border triangle.