I wrote on June 14 of the possibility that Jordan and/or Egypt might intervene in, respectively, the West Bank or Gaza because of the Hamas coup in Gaza. Egypt is plenty concerned because Hamas is a ideological child of the radical, Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, members of which assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Jordan is keeping a close eye on the possibility that Hamas may move to seize power in the West Bank.

Now former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu has openly called for Jordanian intervention:

(IsraelNN.com) Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu has expanded on his general call for Egyptian and Jordanian intervention in the PA, and says Jordan should send over its PLO brigade.

Speaking with Israeli reporters in Washington on Thursday, the former Prime Minister said that Fatah chief Abu Mazen cannot be expected to maintain law and order in Judea and Samaria on his own. He said that Jordan should dispatch its Palestinian force, known as the Badr Brigade. “The Badr Brigade, which is Jordanian-Palestinian, can create law and order,” Netanyahu said.

This idea was less than warmly received even by Bibi’s political allies.

Moshe Feiglin, chairman of the Likud Party’s Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction, responded, “It is very sad that Netanyahu is reviving, via the back door, the Oslo illusion that Palestinian terrorists should protect the State of Israel against other Palestinian terrorists.” …

“The members of the Badr Brigade have been there for many years,” [MK Silvan] Shalom said, “and they are not the ones to bring order, chase after Palestinians, confiscate weapons and arrest them. Expecting Palestinians to do the job against Palestinians is silly.”

I have to wonder whether Bibi really thinks that, too, but is hoping that the Arabs of the West Bank and Jordan will have to spend their time and resources fighting each other rather than Israel.