Great questions! You questions highlight a few minor contributing factors.
While building a pipeline may only weakly protect the jobs of the Amman farmers, are local companies/contractors involved in the pipeline’s construction?
They actually contracted it to a Turkish company, GAMA, because they lacked the capacity.
Does the pipeline go to any other areas which may be exploitable in the future?
Not really. In theory it could be linked to western Disi but they left the farms there. They would probably just build a new pipeline to the Gulf of Aqaba to decrease energy cost bc Pythagoras.
Do you know what the relations were like with the Southern Desert families?
The GoJ exempted locally owned tribes, but it did become less popular locally. The central desert families north of Disi (Ma’an) are considered a strategic tribe and get special treatment, but the Disi tribes don’t. They get to flirt with a lot of tourist girls tho.
This could be an attempt to push out a faction and install another.
That was part of it. The farms which were closed were mostly owned by Palestinian elite families. So the rival transjordanian elites in the military were happy to see them go. But they would never pay a billion for that pleasure. See Keulertz.
Great questions! You questions highlight a few minor contributing factors.
They actually contracted it to a Turkish company, GAMA, because they lacked the capacity.
Not really. In theory it could be linked to western Disi but they left the farms there. They would probably just build a new pipeline to the Gulf of Aqaba to decrease energy cost bc Pythagoras.
The GoJ exempted locally owned tribes, but it did become less popular locally. The central desert families north of Disi (Ma’an) are considered a strategic tribe and get special treatment, but the Disi tribes don’t. They get to flirt with a lot of tourist girls tho.
That was part of it. The farms which were closed were mostly owned by Palestinian elite families. So the rival transjordanian elites in the military were happy to see them go. But they would never pay a billion for that pleasure. See Keulertz.