Great store is placed in King Abdullah’s visit to the West Bank in March 2021, when the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said, ‘We are one.’ I am writing this from a leaderless London where we know the kingdom of Transjordan was created in 1921 out of land belonging to a toughly ruled British Palestine, and that Jordan is not therefore some bit-part late player in the Palestinian question. Nor is it something to be returned to only experimentally every now and then. It was the peace agreement with Israel in 1994 that formalised Jordan’s important custodianship of the Muslim holy shrines in Jerusalem, a strong factor in recent resentments of Jordan, though I don’t see how anyone interested in tunefulness could even have thought of sidelining Jordan. More

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