Tag: Jordan
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...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi heads Democratic delegation to Israel, Jordan
U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is heading a delegation of Democratic lawmakers on a five-day visit to Israel and Jordan to promote “global and regional security and cooperation.”
California Representative and ranking...
Sociologist on Jordan TV: The Jews are founders of racism
In a TV interview, Jordanian sociologist Muhammad Ayasrah said that “Judaism has been a hateful and racist religion throughout history,” and that “the Jews are known to be the racists or even the founders...
Jordanian TV host: Israel released rats carrying bubonic plague in Egypt
Jordanian TV host Dr. Bakr Al-Abadi said that in 1967, “the Zionist entity gathered all the rats carrying the Bubonic plague in Norway” and released them in Egypt, where they harm crops and children.
He...