Jordan is not at all responsible for this mess - in fact, if anything Jordan is illustrative of why this is a mess.
Following the 6-day war, Jordan took in and supported (in both humanitarian and military ways) half a million Palestinian refugees. And what was the PLO response to that? Continuing to stir up conflict between Jordan and Israel, ignoring Jordanian laws, repeatedly calling for a coup, trying several times to assassinate the King, openly challenging the Jordanian army, and, eventually, flying hijacked planes to Jordan, demanding random and then blowing them up in front of foreign journalists.
The only thing Hussein did wrong during Black September was letting the fedayeen he captured go afterwards rather than publicly executing every last one of those ungrateful murderers.
Jordan is not at all responsible for this mess - in fact, if anything Jordan is illustrative of why this is a mess.
Following the 6-day war, Jordan took in and supported (in both humanitarian and military ways) half a million Palestinian refugees. And what was the PLO response to that? Continuing to stir up conflict between Jordan and Israel, ignoring Jordanian laws, repeatedly calling for a coup, trying several times to assassinate the King, openly challenging the Jordanian army, and, eventually, flying hijacked planes to Jordan, demanding random and then blowing them up in front of foreign journalists.
The only thing Hussein did wrong during Black September was letting the fedayeen he captured go afterwards rather than publicly executing every last one of those ungrateful murderers.