Word: jordanians
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...Rashid Hotel, the famous hostelry with the snarling face of former President Bush set into the entryway floor, a 10-ft. photo of Saddam looms high over Bush's head. Inside are 22 more images: Saddam smoking a cigar in Iraqi national dress; Saddam in Jordanian headdress, in Palestinian kaffiyeh, in Saudi robes, in a crested aristocrat's jacket with the Dome of the Rock floating overhead. Never before when I've been here has Saddam been so omnipresent...
Whenever the Middle East suffers instability, people like Ismail Hodeib feel the pain. Twice war has forced the 48-year-old Jordanian on the run, from a home in the West Bank and then a job in the Persian Gulf. After Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, his prospects improved. Foreign tourists, including busloads of Israelis, flocked to his family's rustic restaurant north of Amman. Last week, as Hodeib surveyed tables once teeming with shish kebab and Oriental salads, a shrug came easier than a smile. "Things are worse, 100% worse," he says. "Life was getting...
...called East Bankers of Bedouin stock who form the backbone of Hashemite rule. Protests in support of Yasser Arafat led to attacks on cars and shops, making East Bankers worried they were losing control. Upset that Abdullah refused to break relations with Israel, Palestinians in refugee camps pelted Jordanian police with rocks and taunts of being "Jews" loyal to Israel...
...Nabil Osman, "we listen to public opinion." In Jordan, authorities prevented a potentially volatile march on the Israeli embassy in Amman with a massive deployment of security forces. King Abdullah II's government says it is considering options including the expulsion of Israel's ambassador. Queen Rania, herself a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, even led one protest. Anger has turned to violence in some Middle Eastern countries. In the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, where the U.S. maintains a major naval facility, a demonstrator died after a throng of protesters broke through the gates of the U.S. embassy. Another...
...against the State of Israel, having them judge the situation before they even know what it is about. To claim that white Israeli Jewish soldiers are fighting against brown Palestinian Arabs is ridiculous. Not all Israelis are of European descent. On the contrary, there are large populations of Ethiopian, Jordanian, Iranian, Egyptian, Turkish, and Palestinian Jews living in Israel. These Israeli citizens serve in the army and defend their lives and the lives of other innocent civilians. In fact, many times, it is difficult to distinguish between a Jewish Israeli and a Palestinian Arab because both are of semitic descent?...