Abdullah II Admits It: Arab States Won’t Stop Hamas, Only Israel: Jordan’s Hidden Truth About Palestine and the War on Israel
For decades, Israel has been accused, falsely, of fabricating claims that Arab regimes quietly sponsor the very terror they publicly condemn. But this week, Jordan’s King Abdullah II tore away the veil of diplomatic pretense and confirmed what Israelis have long known: Arab states have no intention of stopping Palestinian terrorism, only of outsourcing it, so long as the target is Jewish.
In a stunning interview with the BBC’s Panorama program, the Hashemite monarch bluntly admitted that while “international forces” might deploy to Gaza under U.S. President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan, no Arab or Muslim nation is willing to actually enforce peace against Hamas.
“What is the mandate of security forces inside Gaza?” the king asked rhetorically. “We hope it is peacekeeping, because if it’s peace-enforcing, nobody will want to touch that.”
Translation: The Arab world will gladly “keep the peace” if it means maintaining Hamas’ rule, but they will not raise a finger if it means dismantling the terror infrastructure that has murdered thousands of Israelis and held Gaza hostage for nearly two decades.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II Says No Country Will Volunteer to ‘Enforce’ Gaza Ceasefire@JoeTruzman and @AhmadA_Sharawi weigh in:https://t.co/D9cYQRedVR
— FDD (@FDD) October 27, 2025
Jordan’s Convenient Distance from Gaza
King Abdullah insisted that Jordan “will not send troops” to Gaza, claiming Amman is “too close politically” to the conflict. The irony could fill the Dead Sea. Jordan is not just “close” politically, it is inseparable demographically. Over 70% of Jordan’s population descends from Palestinians. The kingdom itself occupies roughly 75% of the territory of the original British Mandate for Palestine. Yet Abdullah, heir to a dynasty claiming direct descent from Muhammad, has spent his entire reign denying the deep Jordanian-Palestinian overlap that undermines the “Palestine-as-victim” narrative.
For the king, acknowledging that Jordan is effectively “Palestine” would dismantle decades of Arab propaganda portraying Israel as the usurper and the Jews as foreign occupiers. It would also force the world to confront an inconvenient truth: the two-state solution already exists, it’s called Jordan.
A Kingdom That Trains Terror’s Police
Even more shocking was Abdullah’s suggestion that any international presence in Gaza should “support local Palestinian police trained in Jordan and Egypt.” Those “police,” of course, are not neutral peacekeepers but Palestinian Authority personnel, many of whom have directly collaborated with Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
“Peacekeeping is sitting there supporting the local police force, the Palestinians, which Jordan and Egypt are willing to train in large numbers,” said Abdullah. “But that takes time.”
The King’s euphemism hides a grim reality: Jordan is openly offering to train the next generation of Palestinian militants under the guise of “policing.”
The Jordanian King:
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 27, 2025
• Jordan will not deploy its forces to Gaza.
• No nation wants to be part of armed patrols there.
• International forces will not take on a mission to “impose” peace in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/eJVSCdjy5l
The Trump Ceasefire and Arab Hypocrisy
President Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan, reluctantly accepted by Israel, requires Hamas to disarm completely. But Hamas leaders have already made clear they have no intention of doing so. “We will only disarm if the occupation ends,” one senior Hamas official said this week, meaning never.
Abdullah’s response? An astonishing display of naïveté, or duplicity.
“I don’t know them,” he told the BBC, “but those that are working extremely close to them, Qatar and Egypt, feel very optimistic they will abide by that.”
Optimistic? Qatar is Hamas’ chief financier and Egypt has served as its chief negotiator for years. For Abdullah to cite these two as guarantors of Hamas’ compliance is either willful blindness or a calculated insult to Israel’s intelligence.
I completely agree with the King of Jordan’s analysis regarding what it takes to stabilize the Gaza strip. To expect an international force to go to war with Hamas to require their disarmament is unrealistic. To expect Hamas to disarm without the threat of confrontation is…
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 27, 2025
Queen Rania Joins the Chorus
If there were any doubt where Amman’s sympathies lie, Queen Rania, herself of Palestinian descent, removed it. In the same BBC program, she praised President Trump for “pressuring Israel” to accept a ceasefire.
“Trump was the first president in a long time to actually apply pressure on Israel,” she said. “Beforehand, when [Israel] crossed lines, U.S. presidents would just say a few words of rebuke. Trump actually got Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire.”
No mention, of course, of Hamas’ mass murder on October 7th. No condemnation of 1,200 slaughtered Israelis, of 250 hostages dragged into tunnels, or of 365 days of rocket fire and child shields. Instead, Jordan’s royal couple presented the ceasefire as a moral victory, not for peace, but for Palestinian impunity.
Humanitarian Theater and the Politics of Guilt
Jordan’s Communications Minister, Mohammed Momani, reaffirmed Amman’s position: no troops, no enforcement, just “humanitarian concern.” He bragged of joining airdrops of aid into Gaza and described what he saw as “mind-boggling,” accusing the international community of allowing suffering to continue.
Yet neither he nor the king explained how Gaza’s suffering began, with Hamas’ decision to build tunnels instead of schools, rockets instead of hospitals, and war instead of coexistence. And by his King's own admission, when or better yet, if "peacekeepers" arrive in Gaza, none of them would lift a finger to stop Hamas from rebuilding that infrastructure.
The Bottom Line: Jordan Speaks for the Arab World
King Abdullah’s words may sound cautious and diplomatic, but in essence, they are an open confession: Arab nations will not stop Hamas. They will not enforce peace. They will not take responsibility for a people they weaponized for 75 years.
They will, however, continue to train, fund, and politically protect the Palestinian cause, so long as its violence is directed at Israel.
That is the “quiet part” the king just said out loud.
