There, an increasingly nervous and repressive regime faces a disturbing four-fold reality: proximity to Israeli-occupied Palestine, a majority Palestinian population, a widely popular Islamist movement, and the historical precedent that, in an earlier, not dissimilar era of Palestine-centred regional turbulence, it spawned the first of Yasser Arafat's guerrilla states-within-a-state.
As long as the Israel-Palestine issue is unsolved, his Palestinian population will inevitably be accused of a dubious dual allegiance.Moreover, the king has long been edgy about the Islamists, in particular the Muslim Brotherhood, tied closely to its Palestinian branch, Hamas, which derides the peace treaty forged between Jordan and Israel by King Hussein in 1994, though it would not scrap it.
It was first mentioned in the 1882-1888 Survey of Western Palestine by the London-based Palestine Exploration Fund.
To a certain extent, there are parallels with Israel's policy in Palestine--they want to force the native population out by creating colonies.
The first trend is evident from a recent article by Moshe Arens, a former Likud defence minister, who has argued that a one-state solution for Israel-Palestine should be seriously considered – in the form of Israeli citizenship being conferred on the population of the West Bank.
Vera Baboun, Bethlehem, Palestine (population 27,000) "Leading the municipality gives me the chance to achieve things, and create opportunities on the ground.
A PALESTINE AFFAIR, by Jonathan Wilson.
It's the P.S.E., or Palestine Securities Exchange.
WAYNE Shea Center for Performing Arts, William Paterson University "Palestine Youth Cultural Tour".
According to a YouGov poll last week, 30% believe that Jesus "was or is the son of God" but 31% believe he was resurrected from the dead, which means, I think, that 1% of the population believe an ordinary person was resurrected for no reason, and, if that is true, he deserves a prize on Israel/Palestine's Got Talent.
