AP Photo - Artists draw a mural that calls on Jordan to cancel a 1994 peace treaty with Israel at the premises of the Islamists-dominated Professional Associations

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Having just returned from a brief mental vacation that didn’t even require me to leave Amman, I’ve been amused by some of the news that’s dominated local headlines recently. Although distancing myself from my laptop, I have to admit, the blogger in me was a consistent visual stenographer, taking mental notes all the while.
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Reuters Photo - Travellers sit in front of a photograph depicting the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) and Jordan’s late King Hussein, at the Allenby Bridge Crossing July 9, 2009. Israel said on Wednesday it would allow the crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan to remain open 24 hours a day […]

Yesterday, around 300 protesters outside the Ministry Of Agriculture were protesting the import of Israeli goods and found themselves beaten by Gendarmerie Forces. Their crime was that they didn’t have permission to protest. How did the government react to the protesters being beaten?
By publically declaring (with a straight face) that the protesters, essentially, didn’t […]

“He was just shouting at soldiers but then one soldier decided to attack him, so they beat the hell out of him - riffle butt to the head”. - Israeli soldier, identified only as “A.”, on the beating of a mentally-handicapped Palestinian man by Israeli forces. “We were sent to look for firearms, but didn’t […]

Palestinian officials and analysts have linked the incident to the Jerusalem municipality’s eviction orders of more than 1,500 Palestinians living in some 180 houses in the East Jerusalem suburb of Silwan area. It will become the largest mass expulsion of Palestinians since the Israeli occupation in the 1967 war. [source
We’ve been hearing this for quite […]

A main headline today, as most of you might know already, is the opening of a trial for two Jordanian men who are accused of plotting to kill an Israeli business man who runs a QIZ factory in Irbid. The two men were not able to go through with it, but not before security forces […]

“There is no greater hypocrisy than a country that just 39 years ago, on Black September in 1970, murdered 10,000 of its Palestinian residents, dealing with international crimes today…Jordan will not be the one to teach Israel what combat morals are.” - Israel’s Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter, expressing outrage at reports that Jordan planned […]