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Re:US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, S... by ifwinterco on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:01PM (#46623349)
Trump and his whole administration is extremely pro-Israel, even by the standards of US administrations. Jordan is 95% Muslim and around a quarter of the population are Palestinian refugees, so I suspect that has something to do with it
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Re:US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, S... by TacticalCoder on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:36PM (#46624836)
No matter if one is pro-israel or not, there are reasons to not want your country to become an islamist country ruled by sharia (Jordan is partially ruled by sharia law).
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Re:US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, S... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:29PM (#46626709)
> Jordan is 95% Muslim

And the second Arab country to recognise Israel [1]. (After Egypt. Also on the list.)

In June, Amman was probably "intercepting some of the missiles and drones en route to Israel, with debris from those interceptions causing damage in some instances" [2].

The Israel hypothesis does not hold for this list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_tr...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/caught-in-the-crossfire-jordan...

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Re:US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, S... by ifwinterco on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:18AM (#46629652)
The Jordanian government is reluctantly pro-Israel by necessity, but the vast majority of the population (and especially the 25% that are Palestinian refugees, for very obvious reasons) are not
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