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JD: David this last week Prime Minister Netanyahu was to have flown into the United Arab Emirates but that flight was cut off because he had to fly over the air space of Jordan and Jordan denied that opportunity. Get into the details behind why that happened.
DD: This was the fourth time, on Thursday he was to fly down there for several days in the end it was the Jordanians that prevented it. The Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein Bin Abdullah he was on his way to the Temple Mount and a leader of the Jordanian Monarchy has not visited there in many many years so this was going to be a historic visit. He showed up at the border crossing over the Jordan River with a huge contingent of armed men that were to accompany him. So the Israelis were offended by that and said no we’re not going to let all of these people in we’ll let in the original number only. So the Crown Prince became insulted and said no I want all of these people and the Israeli’s saw this as a show of force that
the front lines fighting them there. they were employed at advisers deployed as advisers to the iraqi army. so, so far we have deprived them of that propaganda device of showing americans fighting the islamic state. and we ve used instead proxies of kurds, mostly muslim kurds, and also iraqi army soldiers. i think we ve done a pretty good job so far of just making that a fond wish of theirs and not a reality yet. the hope i believe among many have been when they saw these brutal pictures of the beheading, that many around the world of the muslim faith would say, we cannot be a part of this. this is a bastardization of our religion but on social media they re reminded it s occurred by the modern muslim world, that this is the real deal. yeah, that is the line the islamic state keeps on pumping out. is saying that the jordanian monarchy is not a muslim government. they really want the muslim
have gone to somalia. maybe some are left, but i think it is a really scary prospect. let s talk about syria, you were just there at the border in one of the camps there, what is the situation with the humanitarian action on the ground. piers, when you re out there on the border talking to these kids, the face of a syrian refugee today is a child s face. half of them are children. and when you hear americans talk about oh, maybe the crisis is resolved because of the chemical weapons agreement, maybe the american politicians crisis is solved, not the humanitarian crisis. every 15 seconds 5,000 people are killed a month. i think basically we re on a trajectory that is going to lead hundreds of thousands of people killed in syria. the jordanian monarchy may