Source (in English)

لقد قام العاهل الأردني الملك عبد الله الثاني بالتخفي يوم الأربعاء عن طريق لبس "دشداشة" سوداء وكوفية حمراء، وذلك من أجل التفتيش على خدمات يقدمها مركز صحي في عمان.

وقام الملك الذي كان يمشي على "عكازة" بتفقد المركز واختلط مع الناس من أجل الاطلاع على نوعية الخدمات المقدمة لهم، حسب ما أكد مصدر مسؤول لوكالة أ ف ب.

"ولكن تم اكتشافه فيما بعد..."

لم يذكر المصدر تفاصيل أخرى.

ولقد مشى العاهل الأردني على خطى أبيه الملك الراحل الحسين، إذ قام بالتخفي عدة مرات منذ استلام منصبه في عام ١٩٩٩ كسائق تاكسي وكرجل مسنّ بغية الاختلاط مع الناس.

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This issue is very important to the Palestinian cause and it is vital to Jordan! In the last weeks, after Netanyahu's new government in Israel, more and more people are calling to create a Palestinian state in Jordan by expelling Palestinians and by denying the "Right of return" which is protected under international laws.

According to some news sources, the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Knesset discussed a proposal to evict all Palestinians to Jordan. The proposal was submitted by Aryeh Eldad, a member of the right-wing secular party Hatikvah.

In a recent article published in the party's website entitled "Jordan is Palestine", Eldad said:

Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, only one country has a right to exist, the State of Israel. Palestinians have a state across the river. They are 70 percent of its citizens.

Unfortunately, Eldad's voice is not the only one which asks to destroy two states, both Jordan and Palestine, in order to create a Greater Israel, that will include all the land between River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. Including, of course, Jerusalem in a "Jewish-only" state.

Our government is asleep. Jordanian officials are mute, they do not talk about this issue. Please can someone wake them up!

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Some important points of the last article of Yusuf mansur, published today in the Jordan Times.

It really is baffling how lack of vision and expertise plague economic policy in Jordan today.

Not only do we have failure in dealing with the self-imposed and created negative impact of the global credit crisis, we also come up with major policy proposals that are not warranted at this stage, ineffective in dealing with the current slowdown, and which, even when implemented, will be too late in coming and may worsen the situation.

...[M]ost recently, the new minister of finance decided to merge the income and sales taxes into one piece of legislation of over 800 articles. Not only is this new law in contradiction with the dictates and vision of the leadership, it also brings into focus a practice that is utterly unconstitutional.

The proposed law lowers farmer income tax exemptions by half, from JD100,000 to JD50,000. This comes in a country where 86 per cent of all food items are imported, and the Ministry of Agriculture budget is insignificant, R&D on farming lacks funding, subsidies are non-existent, water is scarce (Jordan is among the five water poorest countries in the world), and farm labour and land are expensive [...]

In addition, the draft law proposes that the first JD24,000 of household income is fully exempt, the next JD10,000 is taxed at 6 per cent and for the remainder, there will be an income tax of 12 per cent. Thus, the writers of the draft law believe they have achieved consistency with Article 111 of the Constitution, which requires the tax burden to be progressive (rises as income rises).

Moreover, the sales tax is kept at 16 per cent and its spread is further increased, making its impact on prices, consumption and production even more worrying.

There is a basic rule in economics: tax burden on an entity (citizen or corporation) is analysed taking into account all taxes paid by the entity, not one tax alone [...]

A quick reading of the draft law shows that it is definitely unconstitutional. This can be demonstrated as follows: let’s assume, for simplicity, that there are two citizens, one with a salary of JD6,000 per year (JD500 per month), the other earning JD60,000 yearly (JD5,000 per month). Neither salary is outrageous in Jordan. The tax burden on the person making JD500 per month is simply the sales tax, since his/her annual income (JD6,000) is less than JD24,000. Since he/she will consume all the income, the tax burden is 16 per cent of the income, which is exactly the sales tax burden.

The wealthy (the person making JD5,000 per month), having the luxury to save, will spend only JD2,000 per month (JD24,000 per year) and save the remaining JD3,000 per month (JD36,000 per year). His/her tax burden is 16 per cent in sales tax on the JD24,000 spent annually, 6 per cent income tax on the JD10,000 that follows, and 12 per cent on the JD26,000 that follows. In total, the rich person has a tax burden of JD7,560 per year, or 12.6 per cent of his income. Thus the poor person pays 16 per cent of his income, while the well off (who makes ten times the poor person’s income) only pays 12.6 per cent of his income in sales and income taxes. This is the very definition of a regressive tax. Surely this is neither humane nor acceptable, and it is outright unconstitutional.

Now, to practices around the world. The vast majority of countries have their sales tax at almost half the income tax - one can easily verify this with a quick Internet search. They do so in order to ease the tax burden on the poor.

The government in Jordan is introducing legislation under the guise of helping the poor. If best practice around the world, simple economic analysis and long-established doctrine show how unreasonable the proposed law is, wisdom dictates that we should refrain from looking and sounding wrong to the world and in history.

[...] Furthermore, this law has an impact on investment and business planning, and it should not be callously suggested every time we change guard. It destabilises, impoverishes and humiliates the very core of economic reform we have espoused since 1989.

But the single most significant flaw in the suggested piece of legislation is its arrogance. It is probably the most important piece of legislation to be introduced in the Jordanian economy, yet it emerges with no assessment of the short- and long-term effects on the various groups of society, especially the disenfranchised.

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Even if the Jordanian-NATO ties might be something new for some bloggers, stories of Jordanian troops in Afghanistan were on everyone's lips (even official media) for years!

The Jordanian blogosphere inexplicably reported this story some days ago, and we were enchanted by titles like "Blogger Exposes a State Secret" as well as links which flourished everywhere, from girls-only forums to the official Muslim Brotherhood website, all of them claim to expose a terrible secret, a secret that Jordanian officials are trying hard to defend.

The supposed secret is that there are Jordanian troops in Afghanistan (wow!), it was found written in an unclassified NATO document uploaded by an anonymous user on Wikileaks. By reading the related blog post, it seems that it was very difficult and hard to find the document (probably Google was not used) and publishing this kind of information will get the blogger "in trouble".

Reality is different. The truth is that the secret is not so "secret". Jordanian-NATO cooperation was always considered a glory for the government, joint US-Jordan military exercises make the headlines of local newspapers and Arab TVs reported about the presence of Jordanian special forces back in 2001!

Imagine that the state-run news agency Petra, revealed the "hidden state secret" and provided a nice photo of Jordanian soldiers leaving to Afghanistan...

Now it is my turn and I want to expose some state secrets: There were important relations between big Jordanian officials and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, there is a cooperation between the Jordanian intelligence and CIA and, this is brand new, we have American nuclear waste in Jordan!

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Yedioth Ahronoth apologized its readers and corrected a previous story that reported King Abdullah's dog was treated in Israel.

The newspaper reported the story on April 1st. (Was it an April's fool?). It said that the dog's treatment was strictly hidden by Jordanian officials and added that the dog was sent to an Israeli veterinary hospital during the Israeli attack on Gaza.

Yedioth Ahronoth now says the report was "incorrect". This is not the first time an Israeli newspaper reports news stories about Jordan that are then revealed wrong.

Jordanian media remained silent about the Israeli paper's story, a single exception was AmmanNet that displayed the report on its front page for a short time. The blogosphere was very careful not to post stories like this that, true or not, are still considered "taboos" here in Jordan. Exceptions were Jordan Reform Watch and Naseem in his Del.icio.us Pickings.

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From the demonstration in front of Starbucks Coffee in Sweifiyeh.

(Other images here)

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Police dispersed protesters planning to march on the Israeli embassy in Amman on Friday, the protesters tried to reach the Israeli embassy and demanded the government to expel the Israeli ambassador (or literally to "kick out the Zionist pig").

Anti-riot police fired tear gas at the protesters near Kalouti mosque in Rabia district, some online pictures show that the used tear gas canisters expired in July 1995 (before 14 years).
It is not clear how many canisters have been used. Expired tear gas may be dangerous and ineffective, inhaling this gas can cause lungs infection and severe skin allergies.

Back in December 2008, a 68 year old man has died in Greece from inhaling expired tear gas.

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أقولها بصراحة، لن أستغرب إذا أصبح الطالب الأردني ينظر إلى زميله اليوناني بعين الحسد والغيرة.

كل شيء بدأ عندما قام العديد من طلاب الجامعات اليونانية بالتظاهر رداً على خطة الحكومة اليمينية بتقليل حجم النفقات التي تخصص للتربية والتعليم. اشتكى المتظاهرون من أن "الصفوف بلا تدفئة" وبعضهم طالب الحكومة بإيجاد حل للبطالة -مطالب معقولة ومنطقية- ولكن ازدياد العنف جاء نتيجة مقتل متظاهر عمره ١٥ سنة على أيدي رجال الشرطة.

المظاهرات اليونانية تختلف عن تلك التي تحدث (؟) في الأردن، ومقتل صبي في الخامسة عشر من عمره قد يكون له صدى مختلف هنا. فالجامعات في اليونان كانت موطنا للمظاهرات والإضرابات منذ القِدم، تكللت بثورة طلاب الهندسة ضد نظام الجنرالات والدكتاتورية العسكرية، هذه الثورة التي أدخلت البلاد نهج الديمقراطية والحرية.

وأما في الأردن، فعلى الرغم أنه لا تنقصنا "ثقافة سياسية"، إلا أننا ما زلنا غير مقتنعين بجدوى المظاهرات وأصبحنا ننظر بعين الريبة إلى ما يمكن للشعب أن يحققه إذا يعلو صوته. فالجميع يعلم أن مظاهراتنا -على قلتها- أصبحت فعلاً مجرد للتظاهر لا بنيّة التغيير، فبدأ ينقصها كل من الإرادة والحماس والثبات. وبالتالي نرى أن مظاهرات الخبز ومظاهرات عام ١٩٨١ (أو ما يعرف بهبة نيسان) أصبحت جزءاً من ماضينا لا أكثر، على الرغم أنها هي التي دفعت وطننا إلى التقدم إلى الأمام وشكلت أكبر عنصر قوة ضد ممارسات الحكومات السابقة.

ويبدو لي أن هذه المظاهرات حققت نجاحها لأمرين، فكانت عفوية بحتة وغير مسيّسة، بالإضافة أنها كانت إنسانية بالدرجة الأولى إذ كل ما دعت إليه كان يلمس الآدمي من حيث إنسانيته واحتياجاته وتطلعاته.

كانت تقاوم "السلطة" ولم تكن وراءها أية "سلطة".

وربما قد انتبهتم أن معظم وسائل الإعلام العربية لم تذكر كلمة "أناركية" أو ترجمتها العربية "لاسلطوية - لاتسلطية" في أخبارها عن أحداث اليونان، على الرغم أن الكلمة نفسها كانت تذكر وبكثرة في أجهزة الإعلام في الخارج. لا أعرف لماذا باتت هذه الكلمة محرّمة في مجتمعنا، أو الأغلب مجهولة تماماً بين مختلف فئات الشعب.

الأناركية هي فكر معقد ذو اتجاهات متعددة ومختلفة، وأنا بالتأكيد غير قادر على شرح أفكارها بدقة كوني لست أناركياً أصلاً. ولكن هناك نقطتين رئيستين من السهل استيعابهما واحترامهما في الفكر الأناركي:

١- الرفض التام لأي شكل من أشكال السلطة الخارجية أو الفوقية على الإنسان، سواء أكانت "إلهية" أو بشرية. ٢- تحقيق مجتمع متساو سياسياً واقتصادياً واجتماعياً. مع إلغاء جميع المبادئ التي يمكن استخدامها من قبل فئة من الناس لفرض سلطتها على باقي الناس.

يبدو من الصعب تحديد مدى إيمان الشعب الأردني بهاتين النقطتين. تخيلوا أن هناك العديد من الناس هنا يعتقدون أن "الديمقراطية نظام كفر"، فكيف عندما يكون الحكم كله بيد الشعب!

بطبيعة الحال، تعتمد الحركة الأناركية -تاريخيا- على الطلاب بشكل كبير وخاصة على ذوي الاتجاهات اليسارية، والكل يعلم أنهم في الأردن الفئة الأكثر حصاراً واستهدافاً من قبل الحكومات منذ أيام "الاتحاد العام لطلبة الأردن". على كل حال، لا بد أن نقول أن هناك عدداً لا بأس به من الأناركيين الأردنيين المستقلين الذين يحملون الفكر الأناركي دون أن يشكلوا أي تنظيم سياسي، بالإضافة إلى مجموعة الأناركيين الأردنيين ذات التوجهات الشيوعية التحررية المنضمين إلى حركة اليسار الاجتماعي، والذين يتظاهرون ويدعون إلى التغيير تحت ألوية تلك الحركة.

يجب على الحركة الأناركية ومن يدعو إليها في الأردن أن يعلم جيداً أن بقاءها وتقدمها لا بد أن يعتمدا على أمرين: أولاً، أن يكون هذا الفكر عاماً وشعبياً، وأن يبدأ من أسافل المجتمع وأن يبقى لصيقاً به ليدافع عن احتياجات ومتطلبات المواطن العادي. وثانياً، أن يبقى الفكر بعيداً عن التيارات السياسية التقليدية في الأردن، وموسساتها الضعيفة التي فقدت ثقة الشعب منذ وقت بعيد.

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These are the six most important points I have found on the Human Rights Watch report on Jordanian Laws: "Shutting Out the Critics", you can read the entire report here (or download the pdf file).

1-Reality is in contrast with royal vision
At his keynote speech for the World Economic Forum held at the Dead Sea in May 2007, King Abdullah emphasized the priority he places on developing and promoting civil society in the country. The stark realities in Jordan contrast with this rosy picture presented to the world.

2-Jordan has no merits to be elected in the UN HR council
While the Jordanian government prides itself on its election in 2006 to the United Nations Human Rights Council and to be one of the council’s vice presidents, it has failed to live up to its pledge as a council member to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights,” as the UN General Assembly resolution creating the Human Rights Council defined the responsibilities of Council members.

3-The governor can decide anything
[T]he governor of Amman denied the NGO, The New Jordan [...] permission to hold a workshop [...]
Amman’s governor, Dr. Sa’d al-Wadi al-Manasir, denied the request, which the Arab Organization for Human Rights (Jordan) had submitted six days earlier.
[...] Human Rights Watch made three trips to the governorate, but had not obtained permission [...]
On several occasions, the government has denied permission for obviously peaceful gatherings. On July 5, 2007 the deputy governor of Amman, Dr. Khalid al-`Armuti, denied approval for a conference [...] under the title “The Family is a Bastion for Values and Identity.”
At a scheduled meeting of members of GUVS from Amman governorate [...] for which they obtained permission from the governor, police entered the building shortly after it had begun and disbanded it.
[T]he authorities denied permission to hold a June 8 public celebration of the life of the former supreme guide of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Khalifa.
In September 2007, the IAF requested permission [...] Amman’s governor denied permission.
[T]he governor of Balqa’ denied the IAF permission to hold a demonstration marking the 40th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
[The report continues with an uncountable number of governors' refusals]

4-Old times were better... in 1953 Jordanian laws were better than now!
The new law replaced the older and relatively permissive Law No. 60 of 1953 on Public Gatherings, which largely provided for the constitutional right of “Jordanians … to hold meetings within the limits of the law.”The new law reversed the positive right to hold gatherings and prohibited any gathering that did not fulfill the law’s stipulations.
[The report exposes other examples showing Jordanian laws of the 50s and 60s were more respectful of human rights]

5-Hamas weapons
[A]fter intelligence officers briefly detained Fahd al-Rimawi, editor of the weekly al-Majd newspaper, he wrote a retraction of a story in which he claimed the king himself had spoken to him about the fact that the [Hamas] weapons cache had been found long ago.

6-The government makes fun of foreign visitors
The Jordanian government selectively applies the Law [..] to prevent its critics from publicly assembling. In contrast, meetings sponsored by the government do not encounter difficulties obtaining permission. In addition, when high-level foreign visitors come to Jordan, the government allows meetings and demonstrations critical of its policies, if only to demonstrate its “openness.”

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An Israeli soldier tackles a Palestinian protester dressed as Santa Claus or Father Christmas during at a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the village of Umm Salamunah near the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israeli guards beat five demonstrators during the protest on Friday, organisers said. [Source]

It doesn't matter, no presents for Palestinian kids anyway.

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In an unordinary email received by all the students of my university, Prof. Sameer Bataineh has sent his best wishes to them on the occasion of Eid al Adha in a very unconventional way.
Prof. Bataineh, the dean of our faculty and instructor of computer ethics, has sent an email attached with a greeting card, but rather the Hallmark-style sentences the card was saying:

People may endure tons of oppression,
but the oppressor does not tolerate a single word said against injustice,
and who says this word is slaughtered
on the day of sacrifice

Is there any reference to Saddam's execution on Eid al Adha last year? Or is it a generic phrase coined for every single Arabic dictatorship?
By sure the political tone is quite high here, I greet Prof. Bataineh, who is well admired in our faculty, and I will ask him about any other hidden meanings in this unusual greeting. And Happy Eid to all!

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There is a good thing about the last parliamentary elections, PM Marouf Bakhit will be forced out, I am looking forward to hearing about his dismission :) So let's give Mr. Bakhit a warm Bye Bye, Adios, Sayonara..

And forever we will remember the five most important achievements of his government:
1- Freedom of speech in Jordan is even worse, all online sites are now under government's censorship, the close-down of ATV, a former MP and right-wing politician, Owaidy Abbadi, is now in jail for some declarations he made on a website (well, in reality no one knows of what he was accused). 2- No political freedom.. frauds in municipal elections, rejection of Toujan Faisal's candidacy. 3- Too much poisoned water, shawerma and falafel. 4- Indifference toward workers' demands, under Bakhit's government we had many riots and demonstrations in which poor citizens and workers were brutely thwarted by police, the government's cruel actions against sheep farmers were more appropriate to a Latin-American dictatorship. 5- More privatizations, price rising, and a more unstable economy.

I hope (but I am not sure) that things would be better with Nader Dahabi, he was accused(?) of corruption when he was the manager of Royal Jordanian and add the fact he is -by chance- the brother of the head of the Mokhabarat... wow!

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From Waqt Al Farah To Jordan's Parliament

One of my childhood memories I remember with more lucidity is a JTV program called Waqt al Farah; I am sure this program has largely affected all Jordanian youth of that time. The program was quite innovative, with a naive design and a fancy red-fish mascot, all mixed with a high dosage of childish happiness, meaningless songs I still remember and a cute young presenter named Aroub Soubh.

A few years later, I have suddenly started to read her articles on Ad Dustour newspaper, which reserved her a right column on its last paper… the result was extraordinary, as her strong opinions and brilliant thoughts were going well with the other Ad Dustour's sarcastic writer Youssef Ghishan.

Aroub was expressing a new idea on different political and social issues everyday, and although I didn't expect that, the articles were well written. By sure I was not the only one who liked her personal method of exposing opinions.

I don't know the reason she left Ad Dustour, however a few posts on her blog do prove her potential, now, she defines herself as a freelance journalist, while she will (?) present a program on ATV called Samehni (or something like that).

Some time ago, I have discovered a Facebook group called Vote For Aroub Soubh, it is the Facebook's support group for Aroub's candidacy to the next parliamentary elections that will be held in November. In fact, Aroub will run for parliament in this year's elections in Amman's Third District (Zahran-Abdali) with a higher probability of success as women quota are re-approved in Jordan's electoral panel.

Even if you like her or not, Aroub's popularity is above suspicion, I was monitoring the Facebook's group for weeks and its members are increasing daily (They are now 992!).

I will not be surprised to see Aroub Soubh as a future MP, and, in reality, I hope that! Let's vote for Aroub Soubh!

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The speaker of the Lower House, Abdel-Hadi al Majali, advised Kuwaiti politicians to put on a legislative model similar to our two-house parliament in Kuwait , he said that such model could help the Kuwaiti democracy.

After less than a day, Majali was fiercely attacked by many members of Kuwait's parliament, he was accused to interfere in Kuwait's internal affairs and one MP accused Majali to have converted the Kuwaiti democratic government into an "anti-costitutional, illegal and police government" , while other MPs criticized "Majali's intentions to arrest the development in Kuwait" . The cruelest declarations where from four MPs who said they are now afraid for the Kuwaiti democracy after the Majali's statements, the same MPs asked Majali to keep his advice for Jordan (? Jordan already has a Senate) and said the democracy in Jordan is retarded .

By sure Majali is not the man I most like on the earth's surface, I have respect to all other countries and especially Kuwait for their democratic reforms, however I find the Kuwaiti response too much exaggerated .

I do not think Majali has such a relevant influence on Kuwaitis who will make them drastically change their political system, no one can convince me that the government in Kuwait City makes its decision based on what the Jordanian House Speaker says, in my opinion, his declarations were not more than personal political visions, that are normally underestimated by other delegations, but things are different when we come with Kuwait.

All we know that the Jordanian parliament is not so beloved by Kuwaitis, we should return back in 90s and the "popular" Jordanian politics regarding Gulf War to simply know the reason. Everything becomes clearer, the attack on Majali is not caused by his successful actions to make Kuwait an undemocratic nation, the real problem is that Majali invited all parliament members to read the Fatiha on Saddam 's soul the day the former Iraqi president was hanged up; we can add to this many other actions not tolerated by our Kuwaiti brothers , also keep in mind that the Kuwaiti internal politics is not so perfect (on Kuwait's political work, there is a good article of Ahmad Jarallah, if you want to get a deeper look on what I talk about, please read it.)

My last word is about the Jordanian Senate, with no doubts, it safeguarded the constitution more than once (for example it banned the imprisonment of journalists after a law was approved by lower house), and it is known in Jordan that Senate do not represent a real democratic problem, yes, we have a lot of other problems, but, if our democracy is retarded because we have an upper house, then we should be proud that the British democracy is more retarded than ours!

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In my last Arabic post I've talked about my conviction of evident frauds in the municipal elections. I have also noticed that I was the only blogger to explicitly say that, most of the others did not report anything on these elections and some of them had different opinions, which I hope they represent personal convictions and not acts of auto-censorship.

"Oh my God! They are coming!"

All's well that ends well! Municipal elections in Jordan ended blissfully, if we take apart some healthy political bagarres between Bani Rusheid and Bakheet, we can state that everyone is happy and definitely there are no losers; starting from Islamists who are trying to regain some of their lost popularity.

After seven hours into voting, the 'Front' came with their decision to boycott the elections, a scheduled and well-thought political move that allowed the Islamists to withdraw the elections, say goodbye and to mantain an optimal reputation. The decision aided them in regaining a little part of their popularity, and in any case, two IAF candidates won mayorship and several others seats on municipal councils.

On the other side, leftists, panarabists and communists, who represented historical opposition and government's old enemies, got 24 unexpected seats, and some of them become mayors of the biggest cities of Jordan including Karak and Irbid. It's also interesting that Irbid's new mayor, Mr. Tell, who was 'accused' to be the candidate most cuddled by the government, is one of them.

The third part is represented by our respectful government, all we know the government is always happy, this time because there was a democratic wedding. It seems that the other 992 seats were won by the powerful government's party.

Although all the persons I cited above are sure there were some strange actions, too many Jordanians with the same name and thousands of illiterate soldiers; no one can really accuse government of illegal actions, at maximum we can say the government's style was unethical but the funny thing is that there is nothing outlaw.

On my side, I invite political scientists to go into more depth on Jordanian municipal elections, I'm sure this is the first time a government takes so open actions in aid of some candidates without breaking the law, this is a case without precedent.

"I would have voted for Abu Hudeyb"

After ten days of reflections I've came up with a sort of theory, I've tried to answer myself how alleged 'fraud' may be legal? Let's study what really happened in municipal elections.

All we know that some Jordanians are illiterate (roughly 5%); the law permits illiterate people to vote by pronouncing the candidate's name at loud voice. Are the army men punishable because they voted as illiterate? No, this is totally permitted by law.

The voters' lists are published months before the elections. Everyone is invited to denounce any irregularities on the lists, otherwise they become official, and this is what happened in Jordan.

So we can say that the right choice for a legal fraud is to interpret laws as they are better for you.

The second rule is to work against your enemy, not against all the others. If you can choose between different candidates, choose the most popular candidate not supported by your enemy, even if he is not beloved by you, he will be the most appropriate choice.

The third rule is a good dosage of debunking and not the old-fashioned cover-up; everyone watched huge buses carrying hundreds of soldiers, in front of you or on Al-Jazeera there are no problems, it's their right to vote!

Most important condition for the legal fraud theory: The main enemy does not represent the majority, at the contrary; there are a lot of people who do not sympathize for him and they are available to be with you this time.

These are the guidelines for a legal fraud, patented in Jordan, they are now available to all the other governments of the world.

Last week I've read an article of Marc Linch, he talks about the difference between Jordanian and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, anyway he did not refer to the difference between Jordanian and other governments, all we know our government is thousand times more intelligent and slick of others!

... And our government is always right.

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