Jordan's all-night curfew was lifted last week for a macabre purpose—to permit citizens to witness and draw the moral from the hanging of three Jordanian National Guardsmen and a street vendor.
For 3½ hours the broken body of Mohammed Said Kanibi, clad in copper-red execution clothes and draped with a huge sign proclaiming the man a spy for Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm...