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Jordan's

King

Abdullah II

and former Crown Prince

Hamza

made their first joint appearance after the

crisis

that has rocked the Hashemite country, attending the 100-year independence ceremony together.

State media showed the monarch and other members of the royal family laying

wreaths at the monument to the unknown soldier.

Jordan celebrates its centenary this Sunday at a time when the country is experiencing one of the worst crisis in its history due to

tensions within the royal family.

A week before the commemoration, Prince Hamza, great-grandson of the founder of the Jordanian Hashemite monarchy, was placed under house arrest, accused of being involved in a "plot" against his country, an accusation he rejects.

About twenty people were arrested and,

under family pressure, the prince promised to "remain loyal" to King Abdullah II

- his half-brother - who in 2004 stripped him of the title of crown prince in favor of his own eldest son.

However, he criticized the ruler's mismanagement, which could lead to the downfall of the country.

April 11 marks the day that Abdullah, who became Hashemite emir of Transjordan thanks to the British, took the reins of power.

The current rulers

boast of the kingdom's remarkable longevity

in such a turbulent region.

Even before the alleged conspiracy case, due to restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festivities program was limited to a few cultural events and posters with the royal crown and the motto "1921-2021: 100 years and counting. ".

Born in March 1921, the Emirate of Transjordan, beyond the Jordan River, separated from historic Palestine and came under British rule.

It is attributed to Abdullah, the second son of Sherif Hussein, who organized

the Arab revolt

against the Ottoman Empire for the benefit of the British, in exchange for an Arab kingdom that would never see the light of day.

In 1946

independence

was

proclaimed,

and in May the emirate became the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, with Abdullah I as king.

It is the only Hashemite monarchy still in power.

Faisal II, king of Iraq, was overthrown in 1958. Ali, the eldest son of Sherif Hussein, ruled only briefly in the Hijaz, a region in the west of the Arabian peninsula, before being overthrown in 1925 by the Al Saud, still in power. in Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah I was assassinated by a Palestinian in July 1951 and his grandson, King Hussein (reign: 1952-1999), managed to escape dozens of attacks.

Following the Arab defeat to the nascent State of Israel, Abdullah "unified" the two banks of the Jordan under his crown in April 1950, a year after the annexation of the West Bank, and offered all the inhabitants Jordanian citizenship.

His idea was to facilitate the integration of the Palestinians and involve them in the modernization of the country.

This system, in which everyone had advantages, worked despite the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964 and the awakening of Palestinian national sentiment.

But 'Black September' shattered the idea of ​​a single nation.

That traumatic confrontation,

followed by two decades of turmoil,

remains on the minds of many.

In September 1970, to restore the authority of the monarchy challenged by the PLO, Jordanian troops expelled the Palestinian fighters.

In 1988, King Hussein completely disassociated himself from the West Bank - where the PLO had prevailed politically - and withdrew Jordanian citizenship from Palestinians from that territory.

Over time, disagreements with the Palestinians subsided and King Abdullah II, who ascended to the throne in 1999 and whose wife, Queen Rania, is a Palestinian, launched the slogans "Jordan first" and "We are all Jordanians."

In the early 2000s, it

removed the Transjordan or Palestinian origin of the

country's

citizens

from

official documents

.

Many of the 10 million people in the country have that ancestry.

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