Thomas Pickering: Most Jordanians have Palestinian roots

Former US Ambassador to Jordan Thomas Pickering highlights that the majority of Jordanians have Palestinian roots. #Jordan #Palestine

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00:00Some people have said that this plan to relocate Gazan civilians in Jordan and in Egypt would

00:09threaten the survival of Jordan. And as someone who served there as U.S. ambassador, I just

00:15wonder if you could tell us why people are saying that and whether or not you agree with

00:19it.

00:20Well, I think in part that's based on the data that Jordan now has in its population,

00:26a majority. I don't know the exact figures of citizens of Jordan whose origin is in Palestine

00:37to the west of Jordan and who have mainly come as refugees from the conflicts beginning

00:45with Israel's war of independence in 1948.