The Hopkins quote was referring to muslim countries, you introduced the Gulf bit, no Jordan is not on the Persian Gulf but it is on the Gulf of Aqaba. I fail to see the relevance of its geographical location
It may have some thing to with the fact that Jordan , Lebanon and Turkey have a land border with 2 countries that are in the middle of a civil war ??
in most cases a geographical location does have relevance ?? I would suggest that if there was a civil war in say Germany , those trying to flee may well cross a land border into neighbouring countries irrespective of the wishes of that country
Pretty much how it works