Jordanian tribal figures have issued a petition urging King Abdullah to end his Palestinian wife’s role in politics, in a new challenge to the monarch grappling with fallout from uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.Evoking comparisons with the wives of Tunisia’s former strongman Zine al Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, the signatories attacked Queen Rania’s Palestinian origin and accused her of using state funds to promote her image abroad without concern for the hardship of ordinary Jordanians.
The 36 figures are drawn from conservative East Bank tribes who form the backbone of the Hashemite monarchy’s support -- as opposed to Jordanians of Palestinian, or West Bank, origin who are the majority of the country’s 7 million population.
“She is building power centres for her interest that go against what Jordanians and Hashemites have agreed on in governing and is a danger to the nation and the structure of the state and the political structure and the institution of the throne,” the petition said.
THESE MAY BE THE COMING BATTLE-LINES- A REPLAY OF BLACK SEPTEMBER?
I DON'T THINK SO; I THINK KING ABDULLAH 2 IS A WIMP COMPARED TO HIS FATHER.
STAY TUNED...
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Remember that King Hussein was only as strong as the Israelis were willing to help him. Black September was put down with Israel's help. King Hussein was often a conflicted man, easily drawn to the wrong side. Nasser convinced him to join in the joint Arab war on Israel in 1967, only to have him lose Judea and Samaria - and, with it, the eastern half of Jerusalem. Also, remember that King Hussein eagerly supported Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War, against Israeli and US interests, when Saddam convinced him that he would conquer the Arabian Peninsula and promised him half of the Hijaz. (Hussein grew a full beard at the time in preparation for his Beduin return as ruler of half of the Hijaz.)
actually golda and moshe wanted to intervene to hgelp arafat,but were dissuaded by kissinger.
meir and dayan thought if arafat won that he'd re-establish jordan/transjordan as palestine.
imho: we should overthrow the house of saud and install abduallah 2 and let the kurds go independent.
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