This article is important. After more than a year of ignoring the protests in Jordan, the New York Times comes out with this article where the focus is on Hamzah. This is a trend of the US government which lost faith in the ability of `Abdullah to save his throne. Hamzah's mother, Queen Noor, has been lobbying the US government and various elements in Congress--I am reporting to you exclusively--to arrange for the installation of her son. Israel has similar concerns and Noor is trying to reassure them. "“There is a popular outcry for Hamzah,” said an organizer in the
two-year-old secular opposition network Hirak, which began raising
demands for political reform and local development after the start of
the Arab Spring revolts. (Its name comes from the Arabic word for
movement.) Speaking on the condition of anonymity — promoting Prince Hamzah has
landed at least one journalist in jail, and on Sunday 89 people were
arrested and charged with fomenting violent protests — the organizer
said Hirak activists were planning to hold up pictures of Hamzah and the
other princes at protests to suggest intrafamily change."