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Joel C. Rosenberg Meets With King of Jordan

IN MARCH, LYNN & I WERE INVITED TO JORDAN TO MEET WITH KING ABDULLAH II. HERE’S A REPORT ON OUR TRIP.

By Joel C. Rosenberg (@joelcrosenberg on Twitter)

(Central Israel, April 18, 2016) — Last month, Lynn and I were blessed with the tremendous honor of spending several days in Jordan to meet with King Abdullah II.

Our visit included tours of various military bases and the Zaatari refugee camp, briefings from senior military officials, and an up-close look at how His Majesty is dealing with the Syrian civil war, a tidal wave of refugees, and the growing threat of the Islamic State. We were deeply grateful for the opportunity and came away even more impressed with the king’s leadership than when we arrived. But we also saw how urgently Jordan needs more help from the West and the Arab world — before it’s too late.

This morning, The Jerusalem Post published an op-ed I wrote on my observations from the visit. Please feel free to share it with others, and please keep the king, his family, and the people of Jordan in your regular, faithful prayers. Thanks.

MEETING WITH JORDAN’S WARRIOR KING

A first-hand look at how the West’s most faithful Sunni Arab ally is confronting Islamic State.

By Joel C. Rosenberg, The Jerusalem Post, April 18, 2016

It isn’t often a novelist with dual US-Israeli citizenship has the opportunity to meet a Sunni Arab monarch, but last month I had the honor of spending time with Jordan’s King Abdullah II. It was absolutely fascinating to spend time with a moderate Muslim leader so deeply committed to defeating Islamic State (ISIS) and the forces of violent jihad.

The king invited my wife and me on a five-day visit to the Hashemite Kingdom after reading my latest political thriller, The First Hostage. The novel focuses on a plot by ISIS leaders to launch catastrophic chemical weapons attacks against the US, Israel and Jordan, target the king and seize Jordan to become part of its caliphate.

Upon arriving in Amman, my wife and I had a private luncheon with Abdullah at the National Crisis Center, a high-tech war room reminiscent of Jack Bauer’s fictional Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) headquarters in the TV series 24. From there, the king invited us to join him at a live-fire military exercise of Jordanian air and ground forces near Zarqa….

To read my op-ed in full, please go to the blog — https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/

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