Speaking Sunday, former National Security Council director Yaakov Amidror said that if Jordan requested Israeli assistance in preventing its border with Iraq from being overrun by forces belong to to ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, then Israel would have little choice but to help. “It's not just in Jordan's interest, but in Israel's as well to work together to solve this problem," he said.
As the Sunni Islamist forces of ISIS have overrun Iraq, edging closer to that country's border with Jordan, Amman has expressed nervousness that it could be the group's next target.
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