As people, including many displaced Palestinians, in Jordan rush the border with Israel to support the Palestinian struggle let’s take a moment to reflect on the historical significance of this. Many Palestinians were displaced to Jordan and their liberation orgs followed. However, in the 1970s the King turned on the PLO, PFLP, etc in a brutal wave of repression known as Black September (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September) which marked a desperate turn for Palestinian armed struggle and since then there’s been little unrest in Jordan.
Likewise something similar happened a little bit later with Hafez Al-Assad in Syria turning on the PLO and even bombarding Palestinian refugee camps. (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/01/world/dispute-threatens-plo-syrian-reconciliation.html)
Suffice to say that this could mark the return of an international solidarity not seen in some time.
