Syrian refugees currently costing Jordan $ 2.1 billion: Momani……………. correction
http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?lang=2&site_id=1&NewsID=132561&CatID=13
Amman, Dec. 5 (Petra) - The cost of hosting Syrian refugees that Jordan’s economy has been bearing since the beginning of 2013 has reached $ 2.1 billion, State Minister of Media Affairs and Government...
Black September, The PLO’s attempt to take over Jordan in 1970
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/september.html
The nature of the Arab purpose in Palestine was illumined, was indeed dramatised, by the clash between the terrorist organisations and the Jordanian government that began September 1970. Not an ideological confrontation nor the...
Jordan Plays Role In Syrian War
Arab diplomatic sources said the Hashemite kingdom was hosting the training of thousands of Islamist rebels in the war against Syrian President Bashar Assad. They said the rebels, trained and equipped by Saudi Arabia...
The Geneva Interim Accord: A Bad Deal
http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/geneva-interim-accord-bad-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geneva-interim-accord-bad-deal
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The interim accord reached in Geneva regarding Iran’s nuclear program is a bad deal. It enshrines Iran’s status as a nuclear threshold state and paves, not impedes, Tehran’s path towards a nuclear...
Tonight I’m Gonna Party Like It’s 19[3]9
http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/tonight-im-gonna-party-like-its-1939.html
“The sky was all purpleThere were people runnin’ everywhere Oops out of time,Tryin’ to run from the destructionYou know I didn’t even care...So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 199.”-Prince, “1999”
I have been working...
Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace
http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace
The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...
After surviving ‘death boat,’ Palestinians locked up in Egypt
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Nov-20/238373-after-surviving-death-boat-palestinians-locked-up-in-egypt.ashx#axzz2lGeNfv5d
A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, sits behind a fence as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip November 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: After...
Palestinians From Syria: The Worst Treatment of All
http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2013/11/19/palestinians-from-syria-the-worst-treatment-of-all/?cid=otr-partner_site-Israel_hayom
There are over 500,000 Palestinian “refugees” in Syria, as counted by the UN agency handling Palestinian “refugees,” the UN Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. The quotation marks are especially apt in this case,...
Israel’s Economy Minister Bennett Schools CNN’s Amanpour Over Use of Term ‘Occupied Territories’ (VIDEO)
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/11/19/israels-econ-minister-bennett-schools-cnns-amanpour-over-use-of-term-occupied-territories-video/
Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett took CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to task in a tense television interview on Monday, objecting to the anchor’s insistence on referring to “occupied territories,” to which the leader of Israel’s...
Open letter to John Kerry
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6285
Dear Secretary of State Kerry,
After listening to you declare repeatedly over the past weeks that "Israel's settlements are illegitimate," I respectfully wish to state, unequivocally, that you are mistaken and ill-advised, both in law...