Tag: Jordan
Welcome to the United Arab Kingdom?
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas recently told a group of Israeli activists that the Trump administration proposed a confederation between the Palestinians and Jordan. For years, the idea of Jordan serving as a state...
Jordan rejects confederation with Palestinians, says only solution to conflict is Palestinian state
King Abdullah II of Jordan has apparently rejected the U.S.-backed idea of creating a confederacy including areas of the West Bank containing large populations of Palestinians on Sunday, with government spokespersons insisting that Jordan...
Ex-Jordanian prime minister: ‘If we ever become stronger, we will take Haifa by force’
Former Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelsalam Al-Majali defended the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, saying: “My mentality is a mentality of peace,” and talking about the fundamental issues that Jordan had achieved through the treaty. Jordan, he...
Jordanian MP Huda Etoom: ‘My late mother’s single desire was to blow herself up...
Jordanian MP Huda Etoom said that her late octogenarian mother had a single unfulfilled desire: “to don an explosives belt and blow herself up among the Zionist Jews.”
MP Etoom, who represents Jerash, made the...
Jordanian Columnist: ‘Recent earthquakes in region may be due to testing of Israeli weapons...
Following a series of low-magnitude earthquakes felt in Israel and neighboring countries in early July, Kamal Zakarneh, a columnist for the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour, wrote that the quakes may have been caused by the underground...
Netanyahu has rare meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a rare face-to-face meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Monday ahead of a visit to the region by the top Trump administration officials.
The trip to Amman was only...
Jordan faces serious government crisis
The Hashemite monarchy in Jordan survived the waves of revolution unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011. However, it is now facing a severe economic crisis that is undermining the stability of the kingdom.
Despite...
Jordanian MP incites violence at Palestinian National Council Session
Jordanian Parliament member Yahya Al-Saud delivered a fiery speech at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Ramallah at the first PNC session in more than two decades.
“I am a slave to whoever teaches me the path of martyrdom,” he said, and called Ahmad Jarrar,...
Jordanian daily: Trump and Netanyahu are worse than Hitler; Possible some deeds attributed to...
In his January 17, 2018 column in the Al-Ghad daily, headed “How Are Trump and Netanyahu Any Different from Hitler?” Jihad Al-Mansi claimed that “the behavior of Trump and Netanyahu is much worse than anything...
Jordan blasts Israel for letting Jews pray at Temple Mount
The government of King Abdullah Hussein of Jordan has filed an official complaint with Israel’s Foreign Ministry for allowing members of the Jewish faith to utter Jewish prayers outside the entrance to the Temple...