Last week, the Jordanian city of Aqaba hosted a summit between Israeli and Palestinian security officials, in the presence of Jordanian, Egyptian and US officials. The aim of the summit was to bring the Israelis and the Palestinians together and …
In his attempt to break the political embargo on Syria, President Bashar Assad recently took his first overseas trip since the deadly earthquake to Oman, where he met with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq. While Assad requested the meeting, the Sultan in…
There is no doubt that the humanitarian catastrophe that Syria is facing after the terrible earthquake has inspired many countries to act and help, as political taboos are often bypassed in the face of human catastrophe. However, from a political…
The road to the formation of strong and last political parties is usually not an easy one, especially in a country like Jordan that has suffered for so long from a lack of political activism and the presence of strong non-Jordanian parties. While…
Last week, Iran blamed Israel for a drone attack on a military factory near the central city of Isfahan, this was described by the Iranians as the latest episode in a long-running covert war. Regardless of who is behind the attack, it inaugurates…
In his first visit to a foreign country since becoming prime minister again, Benjamin Netanyahu chose Jordan to start his foreign policy campaigns. While the first visit was expected to be to Abu Dhabi, that trip was postponed because of the rece…
The reasons behind the ongoing deterioration of relations between Jordan and Israel are being raised by many observers, particularly given the peace treaty signed back in 1994 and an active security coordination between the two parties. The recen…
15/1/2023Any observer of Jordanian domestic politics would see that the government should be concerned about the way people are perceiving official initiatives, plans, proposals, or visions. It is not new that a wide range of enlightened, educate…
In a previous article on 11 September 2021, titled “The next phase of terrorism” published in the Jordan times, I tried to highlight the emerging risk of the return of terrorism by analyzing signals from different areas, mainly Afghanistan, to hi…
Across Middle East there are numerous complicated situations that have characterised this post-covid year. One of the most important is the worsening internal situation in Iran. Since 2003, the year of the fall of Saddam Hussein, the country…