The images coming from Lebanon are painful, terrifying and horrific. Bodies are being retrieved from under the rubble, and houses are burned or abandoned.

On Sunday, Israeli planes dropped leaflets over Wazzani in southern Lebanon, demanding residents leave immediately under the pretext that Hezbollah was firing from the area. The most alarming part of the message was a phrase warning the population not to return “until the end of the war.”

Whoever knows Jordan knows that its fate is tied to the Palestinians. It cannot abandon the open Palestinian wound and does not even want to. The establishment of the two-state solution is in Jordan’s interest. Keeping the bleeding wound open makes worry a daily part of life in Jordan.

Are we headed toward a new Palestinian Nakba more horrific than the first? Are we standing before a new chapter in the long and bitter conflict when Yahya Sinwar replaces Yasser Arafat and Hamas replaces Fatah?