Jordanians love their king
From Sir Kenneth Warren
Having just returned from Jordan, I am bewildered by Douglas Davis’s article on that country’s future (‘Will Jordan be the new Palestine?’, 4 March). He is hot on political theory, but ignores completely the strength of support of the Jordanian people for King Abdullah. This, as for all the king’s predecessors, has been the core continuance enabling the kingdom to survive amid its turbulent neighbours. Visitors are told repeatedly by Jordanians at all levels of society of their admiration for their king. As one said to me, ‘He is one of us, there is no divide.’ Indeed, my experience causes me to wonder if there is something in Mr Davis’s personal political agenda that he should have revealed in his article as he asserted, twice, that King Abdullah had a ‘deeply corrupt relationship with Saddam’s family’, but failed to give his evidence. To sustain his claims and to support the credibility of ‘The Middle East Writers’ Group’ to which he belongs, surely he is duty bound to go to Jordan and state his evidence there, in public.
Kenneth Warren Cranbrook, Kent
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