When US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggested in an interview last week that it would be “fine” if Israel were to take all the land apparently promised to it in the Bible, the remark did not merely echo across the broader Middle East. It carried particular resonance — and risk — for Jordan. Jordan is not a distant observer of territorial rhetoric. It is a front-line state whose stability is directly linked to the future of the West Bank and the wider Palestinian question.