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