King Hussein of Jordan: On A Knife Edge | Al Jazeera World
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- King Hussein of Jordan: On A Knife Edge is the second of a two-part series telling the story of Jordan's King from 1952 to his death in 1999.
The second half of King Hussein’s career, his relationship with Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab world and the West.
This two-part series is the story of Jordan's king from 1952 to 1999, a major political figure in the cauldron of the Middle East and one whose life and career were never far from a crisis, at home and abroad. Hussein was still only fifteen when his grandfather, King Abdullah I, was shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in July 1951 with the boy by his side at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
His critics described him as an artful opportunist, cynically shifting alliances with the sole aim of staying in power. An Israeli intelligence report once described him as a man trapped on a bridge-burning at both ends, spanning a crocodile-infested river.
He was certainly an arch politician who navigated the minefield of the Middle East all his political life but never lost faith in the peace process. In his last major TV interview he said he believed that peace would eventually be reached in the Arab-Israeli conflict although, of course, almost two decades later, that peace is still proving as elusive as ever.
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King Hussein managed to survive during an extremely turbulent time, kept his throne for 46 years, survived coup d'etats, assassination attempts and made Jordan one of the most stable Arab countries. His legacy is huge.
I really wonder if he ever had the time to rest during his reign.
May Allah protect the whole ummah, strengthen them and unite their hearts.
Arab ummah ❤
Ameen
credits to AlJazeera for making such a documentary...Big salute to King Hussain n Jordan
Masha Allah, a very useful serials of programs about King Hussein of Jordan and the Arabic world. May Allah reward all the people who are involved in the program. May peace come to Arabic world soon, insha Allah.
Yikes
May King Hussein's memory be enternal.
King Hussein literally wrote in his diary book. His mother sold his bicycle to pay the house rent. Now this family owns billions of dollars. Corruption bribery and the absence of human rights in jordan. King Abdullah is a failed gambling player. so must the west country stop support to the corrupt
@@zorro4809 they were a royal family, this is not true lmao
I'm not a monarchist myself. But i would bet that him has been during his life time the best monarch of the world
Me either but I can see the positive sides of it. Constitutional monarchies not like the Saudis or Bahrain. One head of state has much to offer in terms of stability with changing governments.
Along with his friend King Hassan II of Morocco
Jordan is a very civilized nation , compared to Saudi Arabia . This secular monarchy should remain in power to maintain Jordan's stability .
I agree his leadership has been effective but I disagree with the stripping of citizenship for Palestinians. Sometimes I wish the PLO would've overthrown the monarchy so they could have their homeland.
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Wasim Ahmed
"A very civilized nation" ?! I think you don't know what you're talking about.
but why would you worry about the monarchy remain in power? as long as they serve their masters who made them Royals, they'll stay. they won't get headache about democracy, or human rights or corruption or gamblers who selling public lands ...etc
what a very civilized nation!
Screw secularism.
Wasim Ahmed idiot why should be their king or kingdom at all. There should be democracy by the choice of people.
Quality content
Keep it up Aljazera
Excellent documentary. Good history lessen. I learned a lot.
Excellent documentary
Alfatihah king Hussein of Jordania ❤❤❤❤❤
I'm Palestinian and I wish the West Bank would unify with Jordan again. Socialism-Communism and irredentist nationalism only helped destroy the Arab world and keep it back from unifying. The Hashemites were strategic thinkers, unfortunately the majority of the Arab populace is emotional and wants a man to scream and flex muscle rather than successful rulers. Let alone people who are attached to fake borders and identities that are remnants of colonialism.
Jordan couldn't and cannot win a war with Israel. Only maniacs would drag their countries to unsuccessful wars. And here we are, Jerusalem is lost, Israel is swallowing the west bank day by day... Lebanon is a state run by mafias, horrendous war in Syria.... Only Jordan remains
the only responsible for arabs failure is arabs. all the rest is bullshit and excuses giving by us (arabs) to justify weakness hate of each others and making deals separetely beside of being unit and strong. if all arabs will agree this opignon and thinks that it s take to learn from history
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Sorry but I have to disagree, if it wasn't for George habash and wadi haddad Israel would've conquered all of Palestine by now
shut your mouth
West bank would have fared better if It stayed a part of Jordan
Yassss I was waiting for this one!!
hi there :)
He was a wise King and understand that when God is with a nation you don't make them your enemy.
How can you tell whether God is with a particular nation?
I can say that this king is really of royal mind. He acted only harshly when necessary.
king Hussain was wise man
King Hussein literally wrote in his diary book. His mother sold his bicycle to pay the house rent. Now this family owns billions of dollars. Corruption bribery and the absence of human rights in jordan. King Abdullah is a failed gambling player. so must the west country stop support to the corrupt
Very wise. He was a lion of wisdom and had to fight so hard with so many adversaries.
Lol he was a puppet.
He was a moron lost east jersaulem and the west bank ... Horrible . He should've just stayed out of the war . Created a replubic of Palestine.
Role model to be adopted to live in harmony with neighbors
my grandfather was a communication officer in the 6 day war. he has covid now :(
how is he now
@@hashimmalik3407 Passed away
@@lludd99 May allah bless him with jannat
Both King Abdullah I and King Hussein were both pragmatic where the other Arabs weren't. In the end the Palestinians lost more than they gained and they continue to lose. The other Arab nations betrayed the Palestinians
Richard Adesakin in İslam, there is sharia for Jihaad too. We aren't allowed to attack, if enemy is far superior and if it will be harmful for us. Under today's circumstances we cannot defeat İsrael militarily. Palestinian Communist Secular Arab Nationalists don't comprehend this
Ahmed Shah Masud But Egypt can. They're the most powerful nation both in Africa and in the arab world.
Exactly, King Hussein might not have liked the Israelis or the fact that they were there, but he understood that under the circamstances of his time, resisting Israel would simply cause greater harm to the Palestinians and also to the prestige of the arab world. And he was right. Look at the mess today after several failed wars and intifadas.
GuedesGamer the only man in the Arab world to defeat Israel and he was murdered by white Arabs was Anwar Sadat a black Egyptian Arab so he was asassinated because he was black but his name has been buried along with him Anwar Sadat in the racist Arab world...
@@inter3684 as a Muslim i agree with you about your last sentence they only care their nationality not religion so it is all about nationalism from both sides
I don’t understand how people who comment about the greatness of the king Hussein watched the documentary, especially with that chaotic loss of West Bank
He was between a rock and a hard place.
wow when i heard 7th feb 1999. I remember in abu dhabi my bro told me no school tomorrow. I asked why and he said King Hussein of Jordan passed away. subhanallah Allah yerhamo
If he had listened to his army's hot heads & opened a front in October '73, he would've seen his country destroyed again. June '67 & September '70 were bad enough.
I agree, if he had opened a front in 1973 Jordan probably would have lost the east bank, it a was a wise decision not to do it.
I'm watching to know whats went wrong during that time and we need to shape our political views according to these political mistakes and get our land back soon. Isha allah.
17 years old seems to be quite young to be given king status and ruler of a nation. And appears they took advantage of his Naivety
Rest in peace
Why doesn’t Al Jazeera do an interview about Gamal Abdel Nassar ???
That he is dead helps ur query?
Arab monarchies are a case study for how to win a battle but lose a war! Way to hang on to your throne Kings, how will the worms treat you in the grave?
Both you and I,one day would go to our graves. How would the worms treat us?😐🙂
رحمت الله للملك الحسين بن طلال كان من صناع السلام لشعبين الأردني والفلسطيني وكل شعوب الأرض وستبقى ذكراه عطره
و كلشي الاردن عملتو و ما طلعت بلريحه الطيبه حسبي الله و لحد هسا ما شي تغير
The jordanian Monarchy is from the family of the prophet pbuh, and will not fall.. Nasser fell, they still here..
The jordanian monarchy, done its best according to the situations present, they lost a lot.
Palestinians killed Malik Abdullah for his freindship with israel, hated hussain for his talks with israel, and what did plo do in 93 in oslo,
Arafat kept it all hidden from Hussain, why?
Its easy to criticise the father for his policies, its when you step in to his boots that you realise the ground reality.
What did the saudis ever do, the emiratis, and all the others...
If the palestinians accepted the house of Hashim, it would be a totaly different reality today.
You are hilarious..
Palestinians always play the wrong card.
@@counterstrike8840 Lmao you really try to overcompensate for your inferiority complex to Arabs by cussing us out under every comment 😂😂😂
House of Hashemite doesnt make anyone great.....It was prophet who was great not all of his kith and kins......greatness comes from work....what this pathetic losers doing nothing but showing their Nude wife to world...
In 1958, after the Kassem coup in Baghdad where his cousin Abdallah was killed by Baathists,
his turn almost came when on his way to vacation in the plane he piloted (a De Havilland Dove)
2 Syrian Migs dove on him and barely failed to kill him.
too tired to read subtitles, it would be better to dub the Arabic speech.
Now I understand why Arabs countries are silent when Gaza being anhillitated
18:33 why the guy had his gun pointed downward at the mine his female comrat was burying ?
יפה מאוד
The title of KING suited best to KING HUSSEIN. He was the embodiment of what a King shud be...
Arabs (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi and Syria) which are big players architected and hand over phalestinian territory to Israel.
The king has failed in his duty
The Arabs...i feel sorry for them. So many times mistreated and manipulated. Firstly the Turks, then Great Britain and France. Now USA, Russia and again the Turks.
Lesson is u dont mess with the Israelis 🤣
Transformers day
arab rular trust wstren power and israel not allah.lahawla oalakuata illah billah.
Miah you are absolutely right
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The Arabs, who?
3:19 "under Jordanian administration"
What is the problem with that ?
Every inch of Palestine was ‘illegally’ annexed by European zionists. Illegal in the eyes of history and humanity, not the UN and western rulers.
This is the most uninteresting pile of tripe I've ever seen.
Cray On This is actually very interesting if you only knew that King Abdullah will be the Caliph of Muslims, King of 10 Arab countries. Hashemites are Special
@Moe 911 Both
@Moe 911 and the leader of Khorasani group is Hashemite Arab
@Moe 911 Arabs are chosen people. They are semitic, descended from prophet Ibrahim (AS)
@Moe 911 perhaps it’s your ignorance
Thank for this so well done documentary. It has been very didactic and it has explained all the possible factors that made this king acted the way he did. Thank you very much!
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I wished King Hussein was still alive. He would be 85 years old now. He should have lived to 120 years old or more. He was such a stable force.
Wow he really did live on the edge
Jordan is awesome.
Jordan has thrived after the expulsion of the PLO. Today it is a peaceful, modern,developing dynamic monarchy. Thanks to King Hussein.
*cough* Oil money *cough*
@@mab7727 barely any
@@TheAmazingRoNx from the gulf.
The gulf and money from expatriates are the main lifelines to Jordan beside US aid.
I read it say JORDAN open arm take PLO & PALESTINE in 1969. But PLO & ARAFAT dont follow the rules & laws, theyre act it their own home.
King Hussein go to US & Egypt ask help.
He cant punish PLO because he make mistake let them inti his country. And others ARABS country support PLO.
RIP, king.
King Hussien was a wise man!
To be a good king, you don't just need to be respected and loved only by your own people.
You need to be respected and loved by your enemies as well.
As an Israeli. We loved him! Even he has played an active role in two wars against us. But he fully understood. Israel is not the problem. Israel is the solution. You need a good powerful country on your borders for stability, To gain goods from it, and get benefits from it.
Nor Egypt or Syria combine could provide 10% benefits of Israel has.
Hussein bin Talal(1935-1999)The Great, RIP
King Hussein was arguably the shrewdest head of state in the Middle East. A first rate politician and master politician. He had the uncanny ability to maintain good relations with everyone despite turmoil all around him. That is the mark of a first rate politician.
RIP your Majesty :(
Bu belgeselin Tùrkce diline cevirisi yada Turkce altyazilisini yayinlayabilir misiniz?
Palestinians aren't territoris there freedom fighters
Except last summer when they went around stabbing, shooting, and blowing up the buses of innocent people. Most are not terrorists, but some are. Both sides are fascists.
Palestinian methods have not yielded any positive results, just the opposite, as the Israelis go forward with their settlements, they encompass more land, not less. Counterproductive by following in the footsteps of Che Guevara, Castro, Ho Chi Min, Mao, and other 'revolutionaries'. They've been outsmarted.
Palestians are two kinds. One is İslamic Resistance - Hamas. The other is Secular, Communist, Arab Nationalist - Fatah. Muslims, for sure support Hamas
Then Israeli settlers are « liberators », lol
It seems Jordan never cared about Palestine . The king only cared about his image and not losing power . I guess that’s understandable but just such a shame for the Palestinians. They deserve better !
well what can one do with nuclear armed rightwing Zionist extremists who say they are the MASTER RACE and greater Israel will be restored, ALL OF IT and FOREVER. this madness then also backed by US, Britain and the Rothshilds. good luck with that I say. he did superb under those circumstances. the best he could. a true fighter for peace.
@@tomb4250 do you get your talking points from the young turds? who attacked who first in 1948, 1967, 1973 and so on?!?!
like this great programs shall be translated to Arabic language
The audacity of the man in 14:50
“Jordan was responsible to liberate the West Bank, and Nasser was supposed to liberate Gaza Strip” !! Shifting the blame and denouncing responsibility for your own fate ??? How on earth would you gain sovereignty when you are considering yourself dependent ?!!
well plo take the west bank and they coul do now anything against israel. it have to be remain in jordanians. may allah forgive his soul.
I still don’t understand, he was always trying to do the right thing, but every turn was pressured by commies and UAE or w.e they were then.
Kassem seems a bit confused, he looks sleepy, maybe he needs a rest.
Please use a different English speaking narrator. This one is really bad!
What a tough job he had and was crowned when only 17...very heavy weight for a young man.
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The speech in 12:15..... Where can I find it?
You did
20:03 yeah !
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Long live the King. The lines drawn in sand and on map by Great White Fathers of London must be respected.
Hussain betrayed his own brother by naming the dwarf Abdullah as successor.
No he didn't. The Jordanian Constitution states only 1st Son can be King. That's why Hussein was King and not his Uncle Nayef bin Abdullah
Two things i learned from this documantry
One, husain chose the wrong side of the war. Israel would have been much stronger partner for him.
Two, israel has god by her side. god promised israel the land . No one can take it away. The moment arabs nations will accept it there will be peace The middle east
European mongrels are not the people of the book 🤭 gods chosen narcissist 🥴