"Long a reliable and steadfast US ally and one of only three Arab states that has relations with Israel, Jordan also has begun to diversify its diplomatic portfolio. Months ago it reestablished ties with Hamas and its top political leader, Khaled Meshaal, based in Syria, and began warming up to Damascus and Qatar, a rival to staunchly pro-US Egypt and Saudi Arabia"
Now how come Jordan isn't being ripped in the press like say, Syria?
And we have "our friend" ISRAEL to thank for it!!!!
"In Jordan, mood against Israel grows" by Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times | January 15, 2009
Jordanians shouted anti-Israel slogans during a protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza, outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency office in Amman this week. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)
AMMAN, Jordan - The boutique sells designer outfits, but the talk among the women in fur coats and leather boots is about politics, specifically Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.
"Everyone around here hates Israel," says Dana Abu Zannnad, the anger rising in her voice. The 31-year-old Jordanian housewife and her husband, a wealthy businessman, are among the country's new jet-set. They speak English, shop at deluxe stores and travel abroad, many on earnings resulting from Jordan's status as a jumping-off point for Iraqi reconstruction projects.
Uh-oh!
"My husband told me that if there was a war with Israel, he would go and fight," she says.
Even among Jordan's elite, advocates of peace are in short supply these days, supplanted by newly radicalized middle and upper-middle classers, in Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses, urging the government to take a harder line against Israel, as well as its primary patron, the United States.
Yeah, but MASS-MURDERING ZIONISTS that CONTROL USraeli policy are NOT RADICAL, get it? They don't have a HARD-LINE like INVADING NATIONS on FALSE PRETENSES or anything!! Yup, KILLING MILLIONS of MUSLIMS is not "radical" at all!!!! Oh, the BIAS is STAGGERING!!!!!!
Analysts say decisions by some so-called Arab moderate states to hedge their bets against unflagging support for the United States and its Palestinian ally Fatah began months ago after officials perceived that a weakened America was betraying allies in Lebanon, Pakistan, and Georgia. The hedging has intensified as the Gaza conflict rages on, with Jordanian officials making strong statements against Israel, allowing rare, raucous demonstrations of tens of thousands of people and granting leeway to such opposition groups as the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Translation: They don't want to be overthrown by the masses!
From King Abdullah II on down, Jordanians, more than half of them of Palestinian descent, fear that instead of reaping long-term rewards for helping stabilize Iraq and counter Iran's regional aspirations, they will be forced to deal with shattered hopes for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process they have supported for more than a decade.
Yeah, you guys were double-crossed alright -- a standard USraeli practice.
Jordan has hoped a Palestinian state would quell festering radicalism among Arab youth that fuels the growth of militant groups like Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic organization that seized control of Gaza in 2007 and opposes moderate Arab states that support the rival Fatah movement.
Sigh. I'm so sick of the damn misrepresentations regarding Gaza and Hamas, folks. I and really sick of refuting jewsmedia lies on a daily basis.
Btw, HOW FUNDAMENTALIST can they be? I don't see any burkas!!!
Hey, what's ONE MORE ZIONIST LIE, anyway!?
"We were promised very clearly that there would be a two-state solution by the end of the year," Salah Bashir, Jordan's foreign minister, said this week. "This chaos in Gaza actually nullifies the investment that the US, Europe and every peace-loving nation in the world has put into the peace process."
Those two things definitely do NOT go together.
No officials have spoken about breaking ties with Israel, and Jordan continues to receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year in US security and economic support. Bashir said Jordan remains committed to peace with Israel and to the two-state solution signed on to by the Israel, the United States and Europe as well as Arab states.
Good thing YOU don't need that $$$$, huh, Amurka?
But on the streets of Amman, demonstrations against Israel, Egypt and the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas have been growing in size and scale, with riot police battling demonstrators trying to attack the Israeli embassy here Friday. The new outbursts of public anger show just how much the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama has its work cut it out for it in seeking to unravel years of mixed signals and hardening opinions.
And when they find out he's just another Zionist puppet?
Yeah, and Israel HELPED HIM a WHOLE PILE with this latest move, didn't they?
"There's a strong argument out there that goes, `Why not join the resistance?' " said Taher Masri, a former prime minister and foreign minister who serves in the Jordanian senate. " 'You tried the peace process for 20, 30 years, and you got nothing but more settlements and more checkpoints. Let me try my way. Let's try resistance.' "
That's right -- and there will be NO END to that as long as ISRAEL remains a nation! Those borders need to be scrubbed and the state of Israel abolished!
Only when the area is PALESTINE AGAIN will there be peace.
He added, "It's gaining ground."
YES!!!
During the first week of the Gaza conflict, Jordan's lawmakers, many of them handpicked by the country's US-funded security forces, torched the Israeli flag in Parliament to roaring applause from their colleagues. During the second week, a half-page photograph of an Israeli flag burning at a protest march appeared on the front page of Al Ghad, a pro-government newspaper.
You can't see the SMILE on my face!!
Rather than reject public calls to shut down the Israeli embassy in Amman in response to the Gaza offensive, Prime Minister Nader Dahabi responded that "all options are open," the pro-government English-language Jordan Times reported Monday. State-controlled television routinely calls the war against Hamas "the Israeli aggression."
Long a reliable and steadfast US ally and one of only three Arab states that has relations with Israel, Jordan also has begun to diversify its diplomatic portfolio. Months ago it reestablished ties with Hamas and its top political leader, Khaled Meshaal, based in Syria, and began warming up to Damascus and Qatar, a rival to staunchly pro-US Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
To raise relief funds, tony shops have begun selling black-and-white Palestinian scarves, embroidered with the words, "We are all Gaza."
"What we see now is that the bourgeoisie are involved in this, and the moderates and the people close to the regime," said Nahedt Hattar, a leftist activist and journalist often critical of the government.--more--"
