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2023-06-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Crown prince meant to embody Jordan's future, but prospects are bleak

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 [BBC]Jordan's beautiful, cursed landscape

Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-27 05:25|| 2023-06-27 05:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember why there was a Black September movement? The urban mob, mostly Palestinian or other Arab nationality immigrant origins, were sympathizers of the PLO. The King and his Bedouin allies crushed them before they turned Jordan into another Lebanon...

Still, Jordan has few resources that don't require a lot of hard effort to make profitable and a lot of young urban males. In Sir Richard Burton's , not the actor but the 19th century British officer and explorer, book Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah(1855) ( link to downloadable .pdfs of his extensive works!) he gives some interesting insights on the culture both Arab and Muslim pilgrims he encountered. Basically, they despised workers as inferior to warriors -- barely better than chattel slaves. Not that Sir Burton seemed an arabophobe (he saves most of his bile for 'Hindoo Indians'), he actually seems more than friendly to the Sufi version of Islam.

How do you get anywhere if you don't want to work because it is demeaning?

Posted by magpie 2023-06-27 09:22|| 2023-06-27 09:22|| Front Page Top

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