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Jordan calls early election
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Published: 23.11.09, 23:51
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1. Jordan's Palestinians
David ,   Rhode Island   (11.24.09)
Were the Jordanian Palestinians whose citizenships were revoked allowed to vote? If Israel revoked the citizenship of it's Palestinians would it receive more media attention in the West?
2. arab & persian elections make me laugh
zionist forever   (11.24.09)
Jordan - the Heshimites are going to continue rule as an absolute monarchy no matter what the election result Syria - they hold elections but Assad is the only candidate. Egypt - they hold elections but Mubarak rules like a dictaitor and he is grooming his son to take over after him Palestinians- when Hamas won the election Fatah didn't accept it at first and there was street fighting. When Hamas took Gaza Fatah changed the rules and appointed one of their own as PM even though that job is reserved for Hamas. Iran - they hold elections for the presidency but the unelected ayatollahs have the power to overrule any decission the president makes. The president has no real power and if you want to stand in elections your policy must be officially acceptable to the ayatollahs. Why do they waste time and money on trying to create this illusion of democracy when we all know that there is no democracy in those countries.
3. Jordan a “Western-oriented” country ?
Ron B. ,   Lod   (11.24.09)
A Jordanian court recently summoned twelve European citizens to answer criminal charges of blasphemy and inciting hatred. Critics of Islam face the imposition of a death sentence, “if the charge is blasphemy and it is being tried by a sharia court. This isn’t a joke. It isn’t sufficient to avoid assisting to Jordan. It means the condemned “libeler” needs to be careful to avoid assisting to any third country — even just a stopover at its airport — that has an extradition treaty with Jordan. It also indicates that Jordan — which is lauded as western-oriented — expects Muslim law to be obeyed by Europeans. The only reason to the existence of Jordan at : http://xrl.us/omvbu
4. funny but at least he can spare the money
ghostq   (11.24.09)
for campain cause the king had the last word he can decide who there he can chose, so please people r not that stupid, or r they?
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