Does Jordan Want the West Bank?
Author: Michael SharnoffMiddle East QuarterlyFall 2020 (view PDF) Jordan’s King Hussein flies over the Temple Mount, January 1, 1965, while the West Bank was under Jordanian control. In July 1988, Hussein renounced Jordan’s claim to the West Bank. In July 1988, King Hussein renounced Jordan’s claim to the West Bank, which it had occupied from 1949 to 1967.[1] In 2010, his son and successor King Abdullah II endorsed that position.[2] But over the past decade, prominent Jordanian officials and commentators…