tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59866682012-01-29T18:53:41.660-06:00Discusses & engages writings about the Arab people culture, religion & Politics.Neo-Liberal, secular & very occidental. Seeks the common good in all pluralistic societies. Supports globalization, free market economy & shibboleth. Look inside the blog for engaging articles, helpful hints and timely adviceHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.comBlogger1211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-19859723696842113762010-03-17T13:02:00.001-05:002010-03-17T13:05:27.652-05:00

I feel more lonely when I'm around people than when I'm sitting by myself.I don't like to say anything unless whatever I'm saying will have some benefit of some sort.I fully understand the world but it doesn't want to understand me.I like to read the fine print in every text to make sure that every word is fully comprehensible.I have lots of family members, people I know from distant past but I

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According to this http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=23698 published report in the Jordan times, the government represented by the minister of public works is proposing new scheme for the decent housing for decent living project to make it better than the way it is being currently handled.The scheme entails that the house loan pay back period would be extended from 20 to 30 years, the limit imposed

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In his interview with Fareed Zakaria, King Abdullah stressed that strengthening of the middle class would be a definite plus for the future of Jordan, he didn't exactly use these words but I understood it to mean that way from watching the taped interview. As far as I'm concerned there is no clear definition of what is a middle class in Jordan supposed to mean, over the past few years

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Last night President Obama delivered his first stste of the union speech, he didn't mention anything about the Arabs or the Palestinian issue, the speech was mainly about his domestic agenda for the United States, it included issues like health care, jobs, deficit, Tax cuts, and other highly ambitious programs. I'm not really concerned so much about the speech, I'm more concerned about the

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I can't believe that I'm joining this charade but nevertheless here we go. My list will include a combination of both positives and negatives. 1) Not being able to find change even for one Dinar 2) Not being able to find public bathroom in downtown after the Husseini Mosque bathrooms close around 9:00pm 3) Watching people and shops in down town 4) Discovering one souq inside another souq inside

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you all must by now have heard about the Court of Cassation decision to make the notorious press and publication law apply to the electronic media in the same fashion it applies to all other media. Therefore, all the news websites are now subject to the judgment of the watchful eyes of those in charge of enforcing that law. The exemption clause is rescinded, the honey moon period expired, it is

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What is going on in Jordan?! People are killing themselves left and right, so far six people commited suicide since the start of the new year, that is an average of one suicide every other day.Is the life in Jordan getting so intolerable to the point where people find no way out other than kill themselves. Many years ago,While I was growing up in Jordan the suicide phenomenon back then was a

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While in Amman during the summer months everytime I go to the bank someone parks their car immediately behind my car totally preventing me from getting out of my parking spot until they come back and move their car, sometimes I had to wait five minutes other times I waited for as long as twent minutes. When I go downtown and go to the market for shopping someone usually park their car parallel to

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I take it back, Orange doesn't suck it is the suckiest Internet provider in Jordan.Five months of going back and forth to their offices in various parts of the city, I finally managed to suspend the service order.Actually, there was never any service since I never got connected since my initial application for service, but some how they got tired of me coming back time and time again to check on

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I'm officially unemployed the first time in twenty eight years. I lost my job, my health and life insurance, the employer's portion of the Workman's compensation contributions, the employers portion of the matching pension contributions, and many other perks that were built into the contract such as free mobile communications, free transportation, free tuition. I lost my home to foreclosure due

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http://www.jordan-business.net/magazine/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=278&Itemid=40أستاذ مروانبدي اعلق على المقابلة تاعت مدير البنك المركزي، يا زلمه ما جاوب ولا على سؤال من ألأسئله الي انت سألته إياها، مع انه ربنا الله الواحد يحكي دينه، اسئلتك كانت جامده وفي الصميم، بس شو الفايده، كل الجوابات كانت لا تمت بصله لأي سؤال. ممكن يعني انك تلخص كل اجوبته بجمله واحده وهي انه كل اشي مبني على

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قضية ألأزمه الماليه يا إخوان انه في مصاري كثير لرب العزه ومن كثر ما في مصاري بطلو يلاقو ظايل في ناس بدها تستقرض مصاري. يعني كل واحد فينا مش بس استقرض مصاري كفايه، راح كمان واستقرض زياده شويه فوق قدرته على السداد، حتى في ناس كثير استقرضت مبالغ مش رايحيين عمرهم يقدرو يسددوها حتى لو الله اعطاهم طولة العمر. هذا من ناحيه الناس، بس من ناحية البنوك لسه في مصاري كثير وبدنا كمان ناس تيجي تستقرض لأنه البنك

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I know that its gross and disgusting and it sends chills down your spine when you hear about it, but hey according to Alghad Jordanian daily http://www.alghad.jo/?news=356152 more than half of our school children are infested with this pesky insect that invades the person's head and settles in there very comfortably until it gets properly treated with appropriate shampoo, combing, and eradication

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I don’t think that the demands made by Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist, in this report appearing in the Jordan Times today, August 22, 08. http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=10225; were very highly outrageous ones.The prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba where they have been held since their capture made similar demands and were accommodated. They demanded that the food that they eat

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Last month I argued on this blog http://thearabobserver.blogspot.com/2008/07/lets-sue-people-around-world-hurraaay.html that it was okay to sue the Danish cartoonist in the Jordanian courts irrespective of the out come of the law suit. Less than one month after wards we learn in this report http://www.arabianbusiness.com/527794-cartoonist-ready-for-blasphemy-trial-in-jordan that the cartoonist is

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Following is a hate mail I received today:Anonymous has left a comment : I hate all Arabs. They are evil. They have no reason to live in America, in fact, they have no right to live at all! They are not God's children, they're the Devil's children. They're the ones who caused the 9/11 tragedy. You have to be a brainless idiot to believe Arabs are not evil. They should be killed, murdered,

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I recently learned that the comments that I leave on other people's blogs, stories published in the main stream media, or any comment I leave on any Internet website is classified as a form of citizen Journalism.When I learned that I said to myself holy cow I'm and have been a citizen journalist all along and I don't even know about it.And this comes at a time when I started thinking seriously

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I don’t know whether it was a fluke, aberration or what. Soon after my last blog about Jordanian bloggers not blogging any more, or not as often as they should be blogging. Jordanian bloggers started showing up one after another. Basem was one of the bloggers that didn’t blog about anything since he got married. I’m not sure that marriage is a cause for not blogging as Samer returned to blogging

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I can name at least 50 individual listed in the right hand side of Jordan Blogs page that don't blog at all, and another 15 to 20 other individuals that rarely blog and when they do blog it is usually about something of very little value to anyone on the list. I'm mind full of the presence of millions of blogs in cyber space that are read by no one other than the blogger, yet I'm exclusively

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http://www.arabianbusiness.com/526698-kuwait-sets-new-minimum-wageThis report about the salaries paid to the cleaners put me in a state of depression and gave me a bitter taste in my mouth. I mean how can someone especially with a family is expected to continue living after all of the living expenses are deducted out of his check nets only 8 Kuwaiti Dinars a month. This translates into less than

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http://www.jordan-business.net/magazine/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=241&Itemid=40This is by far the best business report that has been produced by Jordan Business since its inception. Three cheers to Ms. Zaina Steityeh on her succinct reporting. I have been reading Jordan Business from the very first issue until now, while some of the previous business reports were quality reports

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There is a strong evidence in the media circles suggesting that an Arab American engineer, real-estate developer, and a political activist of Syrian origins named Tony Rezko may end up being the primary cause of ending the democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s chances of becoming president, he may even end up being the main cause of ending Obama’s political career altogether—and--getting

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I spent my entire adult life working in management, was I destined to be a manager all of my life?! I don’t know and no body else knows but that is what it is and that is where it stands right now.But is it possible that at a time when I’m nearing my retirement age still doesn’t know what I really want to be!! I guess by now at this advanced stage in my life it is almost too late to even think

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Oh those urge to splurge:I think that at the very least the only punishment the people who comply with the call for a strike will get is a verbal counseling or warning from their supervisors for not calling their employers to inform them about their absence and not showing up for work, and at the very most a letter of warning placed in their personal file for failing to come to work. They may

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Thirty some years ago when my friends and I would get together for a chat or a walk around the neighborhood in Amman, the topic of discussion would always some how veer into who had sex with what inanimate objects around the house. Usually, the answers would vary according to the individual and his personality but everybody in the end comes to an agreement that the mattress gets the lion share of

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Let us face it the whole country is running out of options in terms of what to do about those ongoing never ending day in and day out traffic accidents. They pleaded, beseeched, installed cameras, exhorted, threatened and imposed hefty fines to no avail. People continue with their good old driving habits, accidents continue, and fatalities and injuries get added up to the long list of the ream of

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I wrote this article 8 years ago, nothing has changed since that time. see for yourself.Chicago-July 15,2002.It makes no difference whetheryou are a Palestinian or an Israeli male orfemale ,young or old,rich or poor,Czar or streetvendor of any walk oflife- you always are more than likely bewilling,ready,and able totellingly disclose to any one willing to listen to youany time any where ananimated

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Let me tell you from the onset that I’m a registered republican and have been voting republican since Ronald Regan had come into power. The reason I’m saying that so you know that I don’t have any interest in Obama or in Clinton. Nevertheless, as a political observer I never thought not even for a second that Obama has any glimpse of hope of winning the nomination, and even if by a stroke of a

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انا والكمبيوتر مش كثير صحبه، مع اني بقضي يوميا بين ١٠ الى ١٥ ساعه قدام الشاشه،والي بشوفني بقولك هذا الزلمه فطحل كمبيوتر مع ان معلوماتي لا تتجاوز الأمور البدائيه لفهمي الكلي لذه الماكنه.إمتلكت في حياتي كلها جهازين كمبيوتر، واحد كان على ما اعتقد ويندوز ٩٥ والثاني كان ويندوز ميلينيوم. طبعا هذا الحكي بالنسبه للوضع الكمبيوتري في الدار، اما في الشغل فأن الجهاز هناك من طراز دل وهناك يوجد لدينا شخص

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اعتقد ان التدوين لا يختلف كثيرا في فحواه عن ان كونه اداه مسليه تعكس تطورات العصر الحاضر.خذ مثلآ ابوي وابوك وسيدي وسيدك كانو زمان لما يزهقو يلعبو شده، ضامه، طاولة زهر، شطرنج،وهلم جر. الكمبيوتر كان وقتها يدوبك مكتشف واستعماله محصور للشئون العمليله وليس الشخصيه كما هو الحال الأن. لذلك وبما ان التدوين حسب اعتقادي بأنه ماده مسليه فهذا معناه ان التدوين لا يحل ولا يربط وان تأثيره اقل بكثير من تأثير

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يا الله صار لي اكثر من ١٣٤ يوم بدون تدوين، مش فاهم باألزبط شو الفلم، هل جف حبر دماغي، هل سيطر الكسل على كل جزء من اجزاء حياتي، هل انني اصبحت غير مكترث لأي شيء يدور من حولي، هل اني اعاني من مرض المناعه القلميه. الله اعلم عن سبب الأمتناع لأنه في الواقع لا يوجد اي تفسير وجيه لهذه الظاهره. وفوق هذا وذاك فائنني لأول مرة في حياتي ادون باألغة العربيه.وطبعا لا ادري من اين جاءت هذه الرغبة الملحة للتدوين

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I’m predicting that Mr.Abbadi will be found not guilty, perhaps not all of the charges will be thrown out, perhaps he won’t be getting an out right acquittal but his conviction will be on a much lesser charges that may or may not carry jail time other than what he already had served while in detention awaiting the trial. I think that his lawyer’s resplendence idea of inserting the hacking issue

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http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=2547I can’t believe that Fahed Fank, one of the most ardent opponents of the National Agenda; long even before it was even published, is now calling for its revival. The end of time must be drawing near. He questioned in his daily column published in AlRai newspaper on October 20, 205 whether the goals of the national agenda were obligatory or merely hopes and

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I’m surprised that no one particularly those amongst us that make it a habit of theirs to address these issues bothered to mention about the project lead by former president Clinton entitled “Clinton Global Initiative”. This link gives some back ground about the project.http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=1399&srcid=-2I’m personally impressed by what I have read

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Help WantedThe Jordanian press and publication department is looking for qualified candidates to fill in a number of vacant positions available for a recently enacted domestic surveillance program.Positions entail spaying on electronic media websites, blogs, web pages, electronic news beaurues, correspondences, news bulletins, comments, chats, announcements, and electronic press

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Nowadays eager job seekers are turning to places like You Tube to tout their marketable skills, prospective employers are reacting positively. A decade or so ago, the same people were sending in video tapes of themselves to companies that they hoped to work for, in a recorded two to three minutes segment they would outline their career goals, education, training, professional experience and even

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I was reading this column published on Friday August 31,07 http://www.alghad.jo/index.php?article=7016&sub#msg in alghad jordanian daily-- and then I decided to speak my mind on it.Here is how I feel about it :The market is awash with stone care products but the owners of these stone buildings are unwilling or unable to utilize these products that keep their building aesthetically sound. Stone

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I think that the bloggers need to coalesce over one single issue at the time and try to break it open inside out in the public view so it can turn into the talk of the town. This is the only way that public officials will begin to pay attention to what the bloggers are saying. At this point in time each blogger is blogging about anything and everything, there is no one particular issue [except

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I just learned that there are more than fifty million blogs out there and the number is expected to double by year end. Most blogs are read by the author only and by no one else. Most blogs don't generate any type of profits.The Blogger isn't recognized as journalists. Bloggers are called pajama journalists because most bloggers blog while they are at home, they don't go out on the field looking

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Arab Chatter: What It means

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People ask me why do I love living in the United States ? I say it is the choices that are present in the United States & can't be found any where else are the main reason. It is up to the individuals themselves to make whatever choice they want to make, and when the choice turns out to be a bad one they have no one to blame but themselves. Why? Because it is they who made the choice in the first

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Following is my reader response to Mr. Mohammad El Huseini, program Editor for Business News at Al Arabiya . The article in question was published in Jordan Business monthly Magazine. Their link was posted by Oula yesterday. The link to the article itself appears at the bottom of the page.Your article is both; informative and entertaining, the last paragraph about your mom's shares sums up the

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329865,00.htmlThe writer of the article In his sagacious analysis didn't factor in all the usurpation that has been taking place in the Palestinian occupied territories since June 1967. If he adds up all of the Israeli settlements blocks, the Jewish settlers only roads, the areas taken by the apartheid wall, and the newly planned additional housing units

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I'm inspired by the following eye catching headline report that I read in Alghad Newspaper today's issue http://www.alghad.jo/?news=139686دعوة للتعرف على أصحاب الصور التاليةI'm really amazed by this report which states in so many words that there are at least 3 people the authority is aware of their presence in their custody, but nonetheless, no one else had come forward to identify any one of

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For any one that is interested to see my new me, this is how I look at the present time. Sorry for the picture's bad quality.

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I have had battle with the bulge back and forth for over a decade or so.I was buying larger clothing sizes every other month, I went from size 34 in pants waist all the way to size 46, that is 12 extra sizes, I went from size 38 long in suit jackets all the way to size 46 regular, that is 8 extra sizes on the shoulders. My shoes size went from 9 to 11 triple e. I was starting to have trouble

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Dear Salam:This is the first time that I'm commenting on your blog, please don't take my subsequent observation as criticism, or at least if you do think about it as criticism, think like it is a constructive criticism. You need to start hitting the space bar each and every time you use a punctuation mark, for instance if you use a comma-hit the space bar, if use a semi colon-hit the space bar

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According to Yahoo search engine one of the top ten blogs in the world is a blog called daily kos, I’m not kidding you, check it out for yourselves http://www.dailykos.com/ When I was introduced to it several years ago I thought that the owner was an Arabian guy trying to play some kind a joke by naming his blog “Daily Kos” but then the more that I probed the web site the better understanding I

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You probably are familiar with these two columnists because Jordan Planet publishes their columns on a daily basis or every time they enter new column on their personal blogs. I like the way these two columnists interact with their readers, for one thing they obviously are professional journalists since both of them write for major Jordanian daily newspapers, but more than that they communicate

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This morning 10/17/06 around 7:00 am Chicago time, the population of the United States of America surpassed the 300 million people mark. China and India are the only other world countries that have more people than the United States.No one exactly knows who is the lucky person that made the count reach 300 million, s/he could have been born some where in the United States or could have been an

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The missing Link http://www.elaph.com/ElaphWeb/ElaphWriter/2006/10/183314.htm

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This memo is an open response to Mr. Ghariebeh's column http://www.alghad.jo/?article=4847 appearing in the Jordanian daily Alghad newspaper issue dated October 11, 2006.Sir,I beg to differ, if you think that the Jordanians that write in the English language suffer from great deal of deficiencies then I invite you to take a look at the writings of some of the following bloggers on Jordan Planet

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I wonder whether the gripe by the federation of the labor unions is something that will have some grave consequences on the long run, or is it going to end up being just a tempest in the tea pot.! Getting wrangled in legal proceedings can be very arduous thorny & costly process. I'm not even sure that Jordan has the wherewithal to withstand standing up to these giant labor federations and

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What does Randa Habib, Ayman Safadi, Ahmad Humeid, and Marwan Muasher have in common ? You might say that they are all Jordanian citizens, and the first three are journalists while the fourth one is a former Jordanian government official. Perhaps so but that isn't the purpose of my lumping them together. For one reason or another they were selected to comment on the fifth anniversary of the

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I can't believe that the national flagship news agency for the Kingdom would make a flagrant mistake like this one http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/10/18000.htm , a native English tongue reading the report would definitely get the impression that the valorous awards are given for an act of insolence. I don't understand how did that egregious mistake slipped through the proof readers

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For those of you unfamiliar with the case at hand , you will be much better served by first Googling the name Mohammad Salah and then read the post below.Mr. Mohammad Salah will not get a fair trial the same way Mr. Sami Alarian before him didn't get a fair trial, so is Mr. Mazen Alnagar, and Musa Abu Marzooq, and Ghassan Baloot and many others . The list goes on and on. When the evidence is

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آراء القراءالأميركيّون والإسلام - سميح المعايطةلاحياة لمن تنادي- hatem abunimehالولايات المتحدة الأميركية - habunimeh@yahoo.comمع انني اشاطرك براءيك من حيث المبدا باءننا لا نكرس جهدا كافيا يعكس صورة واضحة المعالم عن سمعة العرب والمسلمين في الغرب الا ان هنالك عوامل اخرى يجب التنويه اليها واهمها استمراريت دعم الحكومة السعودية في الغرب وخصوصا الولايات المتحدة على تدريس مناهج مدرسيه مناؤه للأديان

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http://www.elaph.com/ElaphWeb/ElaphWriter/2006/5/151095.htmTo Whom The Bells TollDr. Nabulsi forecasts a very conscionable initiative proposing the promulgation of a synchronized union to look after the educated & persecuted ones in the Arab communities; but to whom the bell toll !The educated are the least paid in the Arab world, they lack the financial means to form a lobby or pressure group

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Sorry Nas but you didn't provide us with any statistics or references or quotes or sources or polls of any kind to demonstrate how the people feel or don't feel, believe or don't believe, or anything of that sort.Your entire essay is based on pure speculation on your part and little bit of figment of your imagination. It would have been a lot more digestible had you stated that what you are

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Word of the day [ whimper ]It is another word for [ whine ] and [complain] it has been on the march lately. People in Jordan complain about the rising fuel cost, people in the United states complain about the immigration laws, people in Iran complain about the united states prohibiting them for acquiring nuclear technology, people in Palestine complain about the world not recognizing their

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وأخيراً نَفَثَ الطوطم الأعظم سُمَّه! GMT 18:06:48 2006 الثلائاء 2 مايوEerie SilenceBy Hatem AbunimehIn this day and age, the entire problem with the Muslim and Arab world be that the Liberals or the conservatives amongst them is their continued silence in the face of all sorts of hypocrisies that are taking place before their very own eyes on a day by day basis.. Most ordinary Arab citizens do

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This post is dedicated to Khalaf, Omar, and Khader. I have read all of their posts and comments and back and forth incendiary replies. I was originally planning to comment underneath Khalaf's post but then my post has gotten so large, therefore, I decided to make an entry out of it and this would be my first post in about a month and a half.I think that it is too early to predict whether the

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In her new book, "The Force of Reason" Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci , faults Muslims for the fact that "they breed like rats"; for requiring their meat to be slaughtered in a "barbaric" manner she says is similar to kosher butchery; for having their own schools, hospitals, and cemeteries; for immigrating; and for wanting accommodation of their religious holidays and Sabbath in

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In this article appearing in the Financial Times http://news.ft.com/cms/s/384be1be-9eb1-11da-ba48-0000779e2340.html The writer argues that blogging is already a virtual tomb for a billion posts, he adds, blogs are superabundant and often irrelevant because we suffer from a glut of data. By 2005, 56 new blogs were starting every minute. As I type this sentence, there are, according to

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The following text is a translated article from Arabic into English, it was translated by Hatem AbunimehCreative rituals for the artists and scholars : The strange methods of invoking the revelations are closer to insanity.The American novelist Mark Twain used to look for a bed before he starts writing, he considered the bed a special condition that has cerebral images similar to a dream.When

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http://www.usforacle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/20/43f9b8cbba683#vfeedbackTopic: Al-Arian reflects on past three yearsName: Hatem AbunimehEmail: habunimeh@yahoo.comLocation: University Of IllinoisOccupation: Associate DirectorComment: I'm not sure whose interest is being served by keeping Dr.Al-Arian in jail ! The American people Tax dollars arebeing wasted on litigation that is totally and

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In a decision that couldn't be justified by politics, common good, or logic, an unknown governmental side ( we don't know who made the decision) prevented the press yesterday from covering the return of the Jordanian citizen Mahmoud Saidat to Amman after the state succeeded in liberating him from his captors in Iraq as a result of an exhaustive effort that deserves lauding.The governmental side

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Notwithstanding the extra ordinary zeal, Jordan isn't Palestine and Palestine isn't Jordan. The Isalmists had their opportunity to capture the legislative branch during the 1989 election, long before the current election law was put in place, all they were able to accomplish was a meager 12% of the vote, even if we double that number to fit the current set of circumstances it would give the

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I strongly disagree with Roba's blog on the part suggesting that we don't blog to be part of the community. Let us look at the definition of what constitute a community : According to the American heritage dictionary definition, a community is a group of class having common interest. In my opinion, Jordan Planet consists of a group of class, that is bloggers, having common interest, that is

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My top ten 2005 Accomplishments.1) On the professional level : I went to work every day except for the days that were designated as holiday or days off.2) On the personal level : I Quit Mahjoob discussion list and joined Jordan Planet bloggers list.3) On the family level : I Told my spouse and my children that I still love them4) On the friends level : I Called my friends in Jordan and

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Enjoy !http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/nest/051222nest.htm

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This post is inspired by Darwish Naji's experience during the period immediately before his http://hotice130.blogspot.com/ joining Jordan Planet citizenry. His experience was reminiscent of my own experience and the experience of couple of other citizens who probably wouldn't want their names publicized and would rather remain anonymous.What makes this topic interesting is the fact that

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Don't ask me why I did it because I have no idea, I guess I found some free time on me and I decided to use it Googling the majority of Jordan Planet members. I don't know what any of these numbers mean, they keep going up and down every so often, so don't be surprised to see yourself with a high number one day and then a low number on the next day.The result of my Googling yielded some surprises

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I think that the purported election laws and the leaked news about the cancellation of the mandatory membership in the press association were the two reasons behind keeping the agenda articles obfuscated.Let us be realistic, it is almost impossible to implement any of the agenda's recommendations even if you have all the best intentions in the world.Let us go over some of the recommendations and

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Professor acquitted of funding Islamist group : Dr.Sami AlArian has been acquitted by federal Jury. See the link below.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/crime_professor_dc;_ylt=AlVp2G2ehVI4oEeqEeFrt.2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--I have blogged about him on November 5, 2005. See the link belowhttp://hatemabunimeh.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_hatemabunimeh_archive.html I also blogged about him

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Below is a very nice article written by my friend Ray Hanania about the recently opened first Arab-American Museum in Dearborn Michigan. Enjoy.http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200505/telling.our.own.story.htmhttp://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200505/default.htm

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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-12-05T135327Z_01_SCH534657_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-BLAST.xmlAnother suicide attack, how different is this suicide attack from the one that took place in Amman on November 11, 2005 ? Are all suicide attacks against the civilians are one and the same ? Are the attacks directed against the Israelis are supposed to be justified ?

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Ever since her ascendancy to the throne as a full fledged Queen of Jordan in the late nineties, Queen Rania has been very active on a number of fronts promoting domestic social programs, as well as polishing the image of the Kingdom abroad. Nevertheless, her efforts have been largely well below the radar level and haven't gained the necessary momentum to generate the broad based publicity

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I strongly condemn the cowardly bombing act committed by unknown terrorists against the civilian facilities and people of Jordan.I offer my sincere condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed. Those egregious acts are affront to humanity and they can never be justified under any circumstances.I hope the the adroit Jordanian authorities quickly apprehend and punish the perpetrators.May

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-ArianThe prosecution has rested its case after many hours of prolonged closing argument, the defendant isn't expected to call any witnesses. The verdict will be delivered as soon as the Jury completes its deliberation.Dr. Al-Arian insists that he isn't what the prosecutor says what he is,namely; the lead chief financial arm of Palestinian Al-Jihad organization

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Did anyone hear anything about the national agenda? It was supposed to be delivered to the king after the Eid holiday ! The Eid holiday has come and gone and we still haven't heard anything that even remotely resembles the national agenda? What is going on? Is the national agenda dead on arrival? A writer in Al-ghad newspaper named Nimri stated in an Op-ed quoted a former Jordanian official

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In light of the flurry of activities that are taking place in the political circuits, political pundits, media czars, and opinion makers in Jordan are gambling on one of two things that are going to shape the next political atmosphere in Jordan immediately or soon after the Eid holiday is over.Some zealots went even as far as predicting the demise of both; the legislative as well as the executive

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I don't know what is going on with me lately but the feeling of lethargy has taken over my life. I'm hoping that it might be the Ramadan period is what contributed to this lethargic feeling, but I'll have to wait and see what happens when the fasting is over.You can't imagine how bad it has gotten lately, I just hate to do anything, I feel that the smallest task is in my view a huge chore. All I

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I'm writing today to congratulate our national English daily newspaper, the one and only, The Jordan Times. There were many capable contributors in yesterdays issue felicitating the 30th anniversary [10/26/05], Rami Khoury stands out like a soar thumb, he isn't only well known in the Arab world, he is a world wide celebrity, I'm very proud of him and his achievements in the world of Journalism as

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http://abc.go.com/primetime/commanderinchief/summaries/overview.htmlCommander In ChiefI'm wondering if anyone watched last night the new episode of commander in chief on ABC channel at 8:00 pm central time. Any way, it was about a guy who supposedly tried to enter the United States through the Canadian borders with a car loaded with explosives. The guy got caught and was brought in for

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http://soi-lcec.lrn.com/app/certificate2/ViewCertificate?catalog_no=ILL906-a50enI have just successfully completed my annual ethics training course, this course is mandated by the state for all of its employees. The main tenet of the course is employee honesty.It teaches the course taker how to avoid ethical pitfalls, and how to make it a habit of theirs to practice absolute ethics during the

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http://www.badmash.org/videos/videos_flv.php?v=george_bush_512K_StreamEnjoy.... :-)

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I'm not sure that I fully understand the controversy that is brewing between the government on one hand and the social security administration on the other over the investment of the money saved up for the people's retirement.The deputies say that the government is scheming to put its hands on the money while the labor minister says that it is not; and as far as the government is concerned

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آراء القراءرسالة بوش المزدوجة - لميس اندونيFactual Error - Hatem Abunimehالأردن- habunimeh@yahoo.comلقد تمكن المحافظين الجدد من اعادة قبضتهم على الحكم ابان انتخابات مجلس الشيوخ وتعيين نوت جنجرش كمتحدثه الرسمي عام ١٩٩٦ فتلك السنه تعتبر هي السنه التي تم بها تتويج المحافظيين الجدد على راس الحكم وليس نهاية عام ٢٠٠٠ كما تم ذكره بلمقال لذلك يرجى التنويه

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If you think about it comments didn't start spurting until about a year or so ago, I remember when I first established my blog in 2003 there was no comment section available. Nowadays the comment section of any publication is proliferating at a rapid pace. Remember Alghad Jordanian daily when it first went into circulation which it hasn't been that long ago, it didn't have reader's comment

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I have recently joined Jordan planet bloggers, this is my 12th discussion list, message board, forum, group, mailing list, or call it whatever name you want to give it. Prior to Joining Jordan planet, I was an active participant on Mahjoob, I spent a little over two years on that site, and what an experience it was. I'm not going to state any high lights from my presence in there since there

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Lo and behold last week I wrote a blog about how when we open the Jordan press association web page we don't find a single word about electronic media or about the bloggers operating in cyberspace, then this morning I find this headline : Committee to reexamine Jordan press association law, suggest amendments http://www.jordantimes.com/sun/homenews/homenews3.htmOne of the amendments that is the

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"Your political acumen is equal to that of a 16-year-old, full of cum, piss and vinegar as the saying goes". I'll come back to this quote later, or better yet read the blog below you will see what I mean!I remember when were going to elementary school, once in a while during the school year, the Arabic language teacher would walk into our class room, order us to remove everything on our desks,

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Rebuilding Palestine: Legal, Policy and Media experts Needed Help Government Become More Effective By Providing Expert Technical AdviceAn international development consultancy, Adam Smith International, wishes to recruit several highly skilled, energetic and dedicated professionals to its donor-funded project, the Negotiations Support Unit, in

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A common mistake people get themselves into all the time when they try to go for the " All or nothing" solution. It goes without saying like this : It is either I get my PhD or I don't want to go to college at all, it is either I marry the most beautiful girl in Jordan or I'll stay single for the rest of my life, it is either I buy a house in Abdoun or I stay in my own lousy apartment for ever

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If you happen to be a media freak like me you might want to Google the Jordanian press association web page http://www.jpa.jo/all/english.htm on the left hand side there is a set of buttons that take you to more links within the same page, one of these buttons is titled News & Activities, if you click on that button it will take you to a page that is titled Latest News, the funny part is :

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It used to be why they hate us ? Now it is why we both hate one another. I'm talking about the Arabs on one hand and the Americans on the other. The level of hatred between them two have reached an all time unprecedented high level. The Arabs claim that it isn't the American people that they hate, it is the American foreign policy that bothers them the most, it is the double standard that the US

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http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/homenews/homenews5.htmWhat a waste ! This project will never see the day light, people aren't only going to haul away the contents of the the containers, they are going to to take the containers and use it for something else. I remember back in the seventies when Amman municipality decided to disseminate black plastic garbage bags for the citizens of Amman so they

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Mr. Sakhinini is someone I met through free Palestine discussion list, I like what he wrote below and with his permission I'm excerpting the passage he wrote below.Intifada,On 28 September 2000, Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Sabra and Shatila, made a provocative visit to Haram al Sharif in Jerusalem, which sparked what became to be known as the “Second Intifada”.The “Second Intifada” was neither

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A discussion between me and my- 10- year old old daughter about happiness.Me. What does happiness mean to you ?My daughter. It means having money, lots of it, and more money.Me.Is that all ?My daughter. Well, it could also meanpleasing God, my family, and my teachers.Me. What else ?My daughter. I don't know, I said all what I know.Me. How about being healthy, could that spell happiness ?My

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