Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Rob asks why popular Islamic Egyptian preacher Amr Khaled announced from Amman the start of his campaign of blood donation to Gaza, and not from Egypt.
Hareega (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
- Jordanians have the right to demonstrate in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman. They were not involved in the decision to sign a peace treaty with Israel, and nobody asked if it was a good idea to open that embassy in Amman. If the US really cares about the people's opinion they should pressure our government to close the embassy. - Also if the US cares about democracy in the Arab world, here's...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Rotten State Of Egypt Is Too Powerless and Corrupt To Act By Robert Fisk Thursday, 1 January 2009 Courtesy Of The Independent On Sunday There was a day when we worried about the "Arab masses" – the millions of "ordinary" Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut – and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people? And...
Newspost Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kuala Lumpur, Jan.7 (ANI): A Tamil Nesan report has said that Maly Tamils will receive land for the Sri Sakthi Nageswari Amman Temple, which is currently located in Kampung Haji Abdullah Hukum in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. According to The Star, Deputy Federal Territories Minister M. Saravanan was quoted as saying that City Hall and developer S.P. [...]
gad-fly (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the days of yesteryore, looking back through the Wayback Machine, comes the last best solution for the Palestinean Authority. Daniel Pipes writes in the JPost: [There is] only one practical approach, which worked tolerably well in the period 1948-67: Shared Jordanian-Egyptian rule, with Amman ruling the West Bank and Cairo running Gaza. The prospect of favorable acceptance of Jordanian control...
The Seferm Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
AMMAN - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday warned about what he called a plot against the Palestinians linked to Israel's Gaza Strip offensive, and vowed to work with other states to thwart Israel's "agenda."
newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
AMMAN (AP) Zarqa, a low-income industrial city near the Jordanian capital Amman, is best known as the birthplace of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who led a campaign of suicide bombings in Iraq that killed hundreds of civilians before he died in a U.S. airstrike in 2006.But Zarqa native and filmmaker Mahmoud Massad has sought to portray a very different and more nuanced image of his...
Financial24 (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
(AMMAN) - EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner admitted on Tuesday that brokering a ceasefire so aid can be delivered to embattled Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip is no easy
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Amman- Jordan and the European Union on Tuesday reached agreement on setting up a joint mechanism for delivering humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip as the Israeli offensive into the salient continued its eleventh day. The two sid...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Jan 06, Colombo: One time area leader of the LTTE and the founder of the Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) party, parliamentarian Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman says Velupillai Prabhakaran cannot win this struggle in the North in any manner.
The Merry Royals (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Jordan’s Queen Rania called for urgent aid for residents of Gaza during a UNICEF press conference in Amman on Januray 5, 2009. Queen Rania donates blood for Palestinian victims of the Gaza conflict, December 30, 2008. The Palestinian-born queen asked for world governments to contribute to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA to address the needs [...]
Power Line (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The Washington Post , in a story by Sudarsan Raghavan, reports as follows on international protests against Israel's military operation in Gaza: From Paris to Poland, tens of thousands of protesters called for an end to the Israeli offensive. In the Muslim world, thousands marched in Beirut and in Ankara, Turkey, and Amman, Jordan. This is good alliteration but poor writing. Raghavan leaves it unclear...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
“..There was a day when we worried about the “Arab masses” – - the millions of “ordinary” Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut – and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people? And now – after three decades of Hosni [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Amman - Jordan's Queen Rania on Monday issued an impassioned appeal to the world community to move promptly to force Israel to halt its offensive on the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons. At the very least, we must push for a ceasefire, a humanita...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Monday, January 5, 2009 : PM says Amman will not "remain silent" after protesters demand government action.
