Three weeks ago on this page, I ended an article suggesting that “it is much better for the Palestinians to present a good text, even if it is going to be refused, than to end up with an approved bad text”. I was referring to the UN Security Council draft resolution

Explicit in all American administration official statements is the fact that the US will do whatever it takes — military option included — to prevent Iran from developing nuclear capability for military purposes. In other words, the US has made it perfectly clear tha

The news last Wednesday of the loss of a Jordanian military fighter plane while on mission over north Syria and the capture of its pilot by fighters of the terrorist organisation called Daesh fell on all Jordanians like a bombshell. It is true that Jordan is part of an internati

After much procrastination, the Palestinian Authority has finally decided to head to the UN Security Council seeking a resolution to end the Israeli occupation of the land designated to be the seat of the envisaged Palestinian state. This move has been under consideration since

The recent visit of His Majesty King Abdullah to Washington was obviously not the first, neither for certain will it be the last, but so far it is the most important.

The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories continues to deteriorate, with Israeli government provocations unabated despite the bloody consequences of previous incursions on the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem and the accompanying measures clearly supporting Jewish

Late last week I drove to a pharmacy in Amman located in a usually crowded small shopping neighbourhood. The three parking spaces in front of that pharmacy were all blocked by a car that was parked sideways right in front of the three spaces, blocking them, as well as one lane o

In his Speech from the Throne, which inaugurates Parliament’s work every year, His Majesty King Abdullah addressed more than one essential issue pertaining to the particularly critical situation in our region. At some point, the Monarch affirmed that the “advanced le

From December 29, 2012, until September 14, 2014, His Majesty King Abdullah has authored and published five important papers that dealt specifically with democracy, parliamentary government and political reform in Jordan. The papers were not meant, as one would perhaps expe