Since Jordan and Israel signed their 1994 peace accord, known as the Wadi Araba Treaty, the West Bank-Jordan border has been mostly quiet. However, that was not the case on 8 September when a Jordanian truck driver shot to death three Israeli border guards at the Allenby Bridge crossing (or the King Hussein Bridge) near the West Bank city of Jericho. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “loathsome terrorist” for killing three of his country’s citizens in “cold blood”. Hamas did not claim responsibility for this deadly act but called it a “natural response” to Israel’s nearly…