Why the Pandora Papers may hurt King Abdullah most of all
Jordanians are living in desperate straits, depending on huge sums of foreign aid. So evidence of his high living isn’t going over well.
Jordanians are living in desperate straits, depending on huge sums of foreign aid. So evidence of his high living isn’t going over well.
He needs all the friends he can get, with restiveness in the palace and on the Jordanian street, and a greater power struggle in the Middle East.
Abdullah is trying to silence his half-brother Prince Hamzah, while the US is bent on supporting the anti-democratic regime.