Showing posts with label Jordan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jordan. Show all posts
الانتخاب والانتحاب
Elections campaign has started, against the government will, the head news : arresting 35 activists from the Islamic front, something that used to prove that the government is not honest in the political reform plan, and put a big question mark on its alleged efforts in creating a new healthy political environment in the kingdom.
Another black image was drawn this morning by Rana sabagh article in Alarab alyaom, where she shed a light on vote selling and compromising between candidates and voters. Basically, her point was the government measures against "political money" were not efficient, because people don't expect any positive difference out of this election, so, they want to take the only available and confirmed benefit :their votes prices.
Personally and unfortunately, I don't care for 2010 elections, for many reasons, on top of them is that the government has stolen the legislative role of the parliament for many years, by issuing hundreds on Temporary law, so , what is the benefit of having a parliament while the government stamps all laws by itself.
Another reason, is that the political environment in Jordan is poisoned and corrupt, people use their posts to make money and facilitate their business, there are no lines between what is personal and what is public.
In last two weeks only we knew about two corruption scandals with total amount of 110 million which takes us for another question, what was the previous parliaments role in combating corruption? some would say they were in the middle of each and every scandal. Also, I really want to know what happened in 2007 elections, was it really manipulated? who did that ? why was there no investigations?
Finally, and most importantly, what worries me is that violence in our society will take a new boost by elections, especially in tribal areas where people have been severely biased toward their candidates. The elections will be a potential spark that will ignite fires. Hopefully, we can pass that day with minimum harm.
وكر الثعالب
His majesty King Abdulla II has criticized Israel for what is going in the west bank, he was direct, honest and up to the point. In an interview just few days before his majesty heads to the states, in a visit where Mr Obama has more time to worry about the Middle east, after sealing two important deals, Healthcare at home, and Nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
The timing and the content of the interview were not pleasing for the Israelis, A columnist in Maariv newspaper has poured his anger on the kingdom, listing what he thinks Israel favours on Jordan and giving a strong support for the "alternative home solution", in the long list in his article the most important point I've noticed, Is the following:
ان مسؤولين كبارا في السياسة والجيش والجامعات يطبقون الافواه لاسباب مختلفة لكن الادراك الهادئ يسعى الى مبدأ اريئيل شارون وهو ان الاردن جزء من دولة فلسطينية.
The interesting thing is that we have been fooling ourselves since 1994 by telling ourselves that the peace treaty has put an end to the "alternative home" option, while the matter is still being discussed between Israelis, the only change was that they stopped telling it directly for us.
Jordan is not weak, we have many cards to play, opening our doors to Hamas will freak the Israelis out, the last thing they need is Hamas on their eastern borders. Also, cutting the technical support to 3abbas military groups will give them harder time in assuring that the west bank is controlled. Before that, unifying the internal front, and having ALL Jordanians in one solid and firm line against the plans and make them aware of dangerous intentions, this wont be done without bridging the gab with the national and Islamic opponents who have been a genuine part of Jordan's people.
Bottom line, we are going to witness tough days, we need to be alert and aware of what threatens our existence as a country facing one of the most extremist governments in Israel.
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Posted by Shaheen
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Saturday, 5 December 2009
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The parliament of Kuwait is the strongest parliament in the Arab world. Aljazeera just interviewed Dr.Nasri Alsan'3 a Kuwait PM and the head of The Arab Region Parliamentarians Against Corruption (ARPAC).
Simply, this man has devoted great efforts to combat corruption in his home country and decided to spread his experience to all Arab countries who suffers of corruption by providing guidance and simplified introduction to states finance and accounting, this might be invaluable for parliament members who don't have the needed knowledge and experience to stand against corrupt officials in the Arab world.
As Jordanians are in heated debate about the performance of the x-parliament, I suggest inviting this guy to give training courses for our newly elect PM's: some suggested courses:
- Corruption 101
- Emsik 7arami.
- Easiest methods to discover hidden links between officials and the private sector.
- How to learn from the past, special cases study for Bank of Petra & Global business Gate.
The interesting part was that Dr.Alsani3 has praised Jordan for some enhancements in the counter-corruptions policies and laws. Unfortunately, he came to Jordan to discuss how to improve the cooperation between Jordan and his organisation but he was not allowed to meet top officials in the kingdom !
