A must-read post from Marc Lynch on the effects of the Gaza crisis in Jordan. Recently, the Jordanian regime had re-opened formal contacts with Hamas, after nine years of severed ties. The architect of this new policy, Mohammed al-Thabi, head of internal security (mukhabarat), was fired last week, prompting speculation about what signal this sends, in the midst of a domestic situation in Amman, which grows increasingly tense by the day.