Menachem Klein

That's the tension.

Menachem Klein's work on this is blunt.

He writes that the Hashemite regime consistently worked to strengthen Amman's political and economic status while keeping Jerusalem underdeveloped, fearing the rise of Palestinian national aspirations there.

In 1950, Jordan began transferring central government departments out of Jerusalem to Amman, local leaders protested klein says it was to no avail so the city