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JORDAN: THE KINGDOM OF SHADOWS AND SUBMISSIVENESS

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Jordan Kingdom of Shadows and Submissiveness
A place in a desert, an Arab state, a kingdom

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“A brilliant place for shopping”, a European expatriate, a U.N. expert living in Amman, tells me. “I get here anything I want. Life is good…”

We have no water”, laments a Bedouin refugee, embracing his children on the outskirts of one of the biggest and most brutal refugee camps on earth – Zataari, just a few kilometers from the Syrian border. “In Zataari, we have to pay for everything now, and those Syrians who are controlling the camp are charging us, all of us who are needy and desperate, for everything… They take advantage of us. They have no mercy… That is why we are living in this tent, outside the camp. Only our children work, because both Syrian ‘refugees’ and Jordanians pay them close to nothing…”



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Several well-groomed ladies wearing hijab are smoking water pipe at one of the smartest malls in the Middle East – “Taj”. It is at top of Amman’s ‘snob index’. Yes, there is one, proudly published on line.

There are plenty of snobs in the capital. Country of some 8 million is producing close to nothing, but many locals are living high life here, thanks to their collaborating with the West and with Saudi Arabia.
To be on good terms with Israel is another lucrative business
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And to have US military bases on its territory, and to have US army and air force ‘visiting’ Jordanian bases, is also one great way to get cash (Jordanian military receives tremendous funding from abroad, but it is strictly discouraged to investigate exactly ‘how much’?)…

Refugees, old and new, are great business. Not for the poor Jordanians, not for the majority, but for the elites.

It goes without saying that helping the West and Saudis to destabilize Syria (like Turkey, Jordan has some training camps for Syrian ‘opposition’, not just refugee camps, and part of Zataari is actually functioning as a training camp) is enormously lucrative business.

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Building new road to Iraq…

Even AP, at one point, could not shut-up, anymore, and snapped:

“Jordan is… officially denying that any training of anti-Assad fighters takes place on its soil, though both Jordanian and American officials have acknowledged it does.”

As we look at Jericho, from the top of one of the hills near the border, I breathe deeply while feeling goose bumps on my back: “Palestine!”

“Israel”, utters my driver, phlegmatically. Then, as he passes Jordanian military control, he calls the soldier “habibi”, which literally means ‘my beloved’.

Christian religious sites are huge business here, too, and to get to the River Jordan and to the place where *************************************************, it is necessary to endure steep fees and outrageous arrogance of Jordanian intelligence agents (the site is on the border between Jordan and ‘Israel’, as my driver calls it).

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Empty water tank – Syrian Bedouin refugees outside Zataari camp. The Syrian war and Mideast chaos have caused a massive displacement of persons across the area.

Jordan is hardly a pride of Arab world. Palestinians are discriminated here, relentlessly, to the point that even the UN is occasionally protesting. There is also discrimination against Bedouins.

“We love Americans here”, explains Ahmed, an owner of a small café right in front of the ancient Roman theatre in Amman. “Many of us worked for them. I served as an interpreter on one of their bases in Iraq…” I heard similar story in Uganda, recently…

To trash Iran and Syria is in vogue here. I guess it is expected from you, if you want to get a decent job. But enormous military airports between Amman and the Syrian or Iraqi border are something one should not discuss… The West is not criticized here; to do it publicly is taboo. ‘One does not bite the hand that feeds you’ mentality…

One also does not comment on who is now building al-Azraaq refugee camp, designed for over 100.000 souls. Nor what purpose is it going to serve, exactly. Who finances it, who is constructing it, and who is profiting: hush, hush, and hush…

As I chat with Philippine and Kenyan waiters at a plush bar at Marriott hotel on the shore of Dead Sea, everything becomes clear. “It is mostly for foreigners,” I am being told. Resort is packed with expatriates on weekend outing, and with Israeli tourists. Poor Dead Sea is endlessly fucked, and soon will be truly dead, dry, as it is sinking by one meter a year. But while even at ‘Israeli side’ there appears to be almost no construction, Jordan is slamming one new enormous hotel after another and now even constructing shiny US-style shopping malls. ‘Who cares about environment? Foreign military and expatriates need some fresh air and booze.’ Gomorrah and Sodom are at the opposite shore, but this is their latest variety.

If you drive towards Petra and then Aqaba, it is all desert and misery, villages covered with dust and poverty on roughly Yemeni level. You drive towards Syria and it is approximately the same: miserable towns, military airports and refugee camps.

But back in Amman, it is 8 of what is called ‘5-star malls’, while several new ones are being built. The country is totally grotesque, but it is actually not something unique – just a condensed reality of the Middle East, or at least of the client states of the West in this part of the world.

Christopher Black, a leading international lawyer based in Toronto, Canada, explained for this report:

King Abdullah is acting as the cat’s paw of Anglo – American – Israeli aggression in the region by his support of the vicious war against Syria and its violation of the UN Charter and international law by allowing his territory to be used to launch attacks by US proxy forces and American “advisers” against Syria, by harboring armed guerrilla and terrorist groups and by facilitating the movement of Israeli forces on its common borders with Syria.

The wisdom here is simple: If you are member of the elites, serve Europe and the US well, then get yourself a Range Rover, buy few Michael Kors bags for your wife, Bally shoes for yourself, have a drink or two in order to appear very secular and very progressive, cover your head with Vuitton scarf if you are a female, and don’t forget to smoke a few rounds of aromatic water pipe.

And tell everyone how much you love your (actually, our) King. Otherwise, shut up, habibi! Or you will get your country into real trouble; if you don’t collaborate, it may end up like Iraq or Libya, Syria or Iran.

By Special Correspondent Andre Vltchek is a novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries.
 
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Amman for the poor..
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International technocrats, diplomats and other foreigners in the upper layers of Jordan.
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Jordanian military in front of Zaatari.
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Marriott on the Dead Sea: chiefly for Israelis and foreign expatriates.
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Monstrous Zaatari camp.
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"Normal" life in Jordan.
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Pope Francis, his holiness investor, and Jordanian intelligence guys, near the birthplace of Mr. Christ

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Ah...those nice royal blokes. What would do the West without them?
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Jordan's Taj mall at sunset..opulence side by side with extravagant destitution

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States like Jordan are a joke. Actually, jokes on me because I called Jordan a 'state' ...lol

One analyst in Pakistan joked on television that the only purpose of Jordan is to serve a barrier between Saudi Arabia and Israel..so that two of the most important U.S allies don't share a border..
 
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Amman for the poor..
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International technocrats, diplomats and other foreigners in the upper layers of Jordan.
internationals.jpg


Jordanian military in front of Zaatari.
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Marriott on the Dead Sea: chiefly for Israelis and foreign expatriates.
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Monstrous Zaatari camp.
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"Normal" life in Jordan.
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Pope Francis, his holiness investor, and Jordanian intelligence guys, near the birthplace of Mr. Christ

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Ah...those nice royal blokes. What would do the West without them?
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Jordan's Taj mall at sunset..opulence side by side with extravagant destitution

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here we go again with another butthurt individual. It truly seems that no matter how many refugees (more than 700 a day) Jordan accepts and no matter what it does for the Arab cause, people like you will exist. Since when is the size of the zaatari camp a bad thing? If anything, it's bad for Jordan, not the Syrians. And the azraq camp is not secretive at all, the government is building it to house even more refugees who would likely be dead if they were in their home country using some some tax payer money and funds from donors. All the 1.5 million plus Syrian refugees in the camps and throughout the kingdom would likely be dead or TRULY suffering in Lebanese refugee camps. I've been to the dead sea, I didn't see any Israelis there (although, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing). Israel has its own smaller chunk of the dead sea. on which, it has luxury hotels as well. Although, the majority of the dead sea on the left side is in the west bank (Palestinian) and thus does not have the same luxury hotels you saw in Jordan. And it will not dry off because of the joint Jordanian-Israeli effort to connect it to the red sea via water pipeline. Of course you wouldn't know this as it seems you're highly uneducated. I hate to disappoint you but that picture of "normal life" in Jordan is actually just a picture of the desert, sorry. And the funny thing is, it's not even the Syrians that are trying to smear Jordan, or the Palestinians (in large), just a minority of butthurt people like you, habibi.

All in all, this 'article' is an extremely pathetic attempt to try and smear Jordan's image and I could go through every one of the many inaccuracies in it but frankly, I have better things to do.
 
@Ahmed Jo

I actually heard that Jordan benefits economically every time a crisis arises like during Iraq and now Syria. People who own property and making good money right now. And if you purchase apartment blocs you can resell them a month later and profit.

Is it as people say?
 
@Ahmed Jo

I actually heard that Jordan benefits economically every time a crisis arises like during Iraq and now Syria. People who own property and making good money right now. And if you purchase apartment blocs you can resell them a month later and profit.

Is it as people say?
The private real estate economy does benefit, yes, but it the state itself suffers losses of billions of dollars which the tax revenue from the real estate market does not get close to paying off.
 
here we go again with another butthurt individual. It truly seems that no matter how many refugees (more than 700 a day) Jordan accepts and no matter what it does for the Arab cause, people like you will exist. Since when is the size of the zaatari camp a bad thing? If anything, it's bad for Jordan, not the Syrians. And the azraq camp is not secretive at all, the government is building it to house even more refugees who would likely be dead if they were in their home country using some some tax payer money and funds from donors. All the 1.5 million plus Syrian refugees in the camps and throughout the kingdom would likely be dead or TRULY suffering in Lebanese refugee camps. I've been to the dead sea, I didn't see any Israelis there (although, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing). Israel has its own smaller chunk of the dead sea. on which, it has luxury hotels as well. Although, the majority of the dead sea on the left side is in the west bank (Palestinian) and thus does not have the same luxury hotels you saw in Jordan. And it will not dry off because of the joint Jordanian-Israeli effort to connect it to the red sea via water pipeline. Of course you wouldn't know this as it seems you're highly uneducated. I hate to disappoint you but that picture of "normal life" in Jordan is actually just a picture of the desert, sorry. And the funny thing is, it's not even the Syrians that are trying to smear Jordan, or the Palestinians (in large), just a minority of butthurt people like you, habibi.

All in all, this 'article' is an extremely pathetic attempt to try and smear Jordan's image and I could go through every one of the many inaccuracies in it but frankly, I have better things to do.

Homie, don't take him seriously as he is getting back at me through these topics. I made this ******** ******** cry (literally) :partay:
 
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There are plenty of snobs in the capital. Country of some 8 million is producing close to nothing, but many locals are living high life here, thanks to their collaborating with the West and with Saudi Arabia.
Jordan GDP per capita - $6,100

Algeria GDP per capita - $7,500

Considering over 90% of Algeria export is oil and gas, Algeria is doing extremely poor compare to Jordan.
 
C'mon you can't do the fairy tale stuff here.

@WebMaster
I didn't write the article.

Jordan GDP per capita - $6,100

Algeria GDP per capita - $7,500

Considering over 90% of Algeria export is oil and gas, Algeria is doing extremely poor compare to Jordan.
Two panhandlers that defend each other...that what the Sauds, the US, and the rest of NATO countries pay that minon kingdom to do their dirty dead...Just like your country who made the "holocaust " a thriving blackmail business.

so that's why he's so pathetic.
Sure , it is pathetic to help and capitalize on the destruction of your neighbors...the West has already pulled your pants down...the reason you wear robes...like ladies of leasure..
 
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I've taken care of that. We at PDF do not encourage statements that hurt religious sentiments.
Chak Bamu, I didn't write the article. It was written by a journalist, a film maker of that faith! What is the deal with most of the moderator that they get at "attention" every time that an article is posted on the sauds and now Jordan...
We are talking about violence, destruction , death, and these two countries are one of the initiators...You know i, and everybody know it...the moderation is demeaning the being of this forum..
 
Jordan GDP per capita - $6,100

Algeria GDP per capita - $7,500

Considering over 90% of Algeria export is oil and gas, Algeria is doing extremely poor compare to Jordan.
what year are those estimates from, if you don't mind me asking? As of 2013, I believe GDP per capita was roughly the same for Jordan ($5,214.19) and Algeria ($5,360.7) and as you sort of mentioned, Jordan doesn't produce any oil.
 
I didn't write the article.

Two panhandlers that defend each other...that what the Sauds, the US, and the rest of NATO countries pay that minon kingdom to do their dirty dead...Just like your country who made the "holocaust " a thriving blackmail business.

Sure , it is pathetic to help and capitalize on the destruction of your neighbors...the West has already pulled your pants down...the reason you wear robes...like ladies of leasure..
What u are rambling there? Jordan production is doing very well compare to Algeria, because if subtract oil Algeria will be lower than Zimbabwe.

The only non oil Muslim country which is relatively developed is Turkey. All other are either similar to Jordan or much worse.
 

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