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“It is not only Israel that has failed the people of Gaza with a blockade that punishes everybody living there for the acts of a few. World powers have also failed and even betrayed Gaza’s ordinary citizens. They have wrung hands and issued statements, but have taken little meaningful action to attempt to change […]

Just heard the news about an hour ago that Samir Rifai, who as of yesterday headed the Jordan Dubai Capital corporation, has been appointed as the next Prime Minister of Jordan. I don’t really know what to say about this piece of news. It is, from at least this citizen’s point of view, not the […]

To begin with, last week, it was revealed that Israel had revoked the Jerusalem residency rights of over 4,500 Palestinians in 2008, mainly because it claimed that they had been absent from the city for more than the allowed seven years (had this happened anywhere else in the world, we would’ve called it ethnic cleansing). […]

Ammon and Khaberni are already reporting this, (it’s on the AFP wire), but it seems Parliamentary elections, as expected, have been delayed. The Lower House of Parliament was dissolved a few days back by the King, in anticipation of new elections for a new parliament, to be scheduled within four months. Constitutionally, elections are allowed […]

In a recent Reuters piece, I have to admit finding this paragraph to be pretty darn funny:
In an online interview this year that epitomized the progressive image Dubai has tried to present, Sheikh Mohammed rejected the suggestion he was a “Superman” who ran the freewheeling emirate alone.
“The ‘Superman’ phenomenon you are talking about does not […]

AMMAN — A Jordanian man was charged on Sunday with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his 22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said.
“The father and his brother took the girl on Saturday to a doctor because she suffered stomach pains, and everybody was surprised to learn that she was six […]

Reuters Pictures - Hosam Maher Husein Smadi is pictured in this undated family handout photo released October 1, 2009. The Jordanian national was arrested in the United States on September 24, 2009 and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Smadi, who had been under intense surveillance by the FBI, was arrested […]

AP PHOTO - Jordanian doctor Mohammed Asha carries his son, surrounded by relatives and friends, upon his arrival in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. In August 2009 the Home Office dropped attempts to deport the Jordanian doctor, after he was cleared in a trial last year of involvement in botched car bombs attacks in […]