The Hashemite Kingdom of Apartheid?

In its recently published survey, Freedom House concluded that Jordan is not a “free” country. This startling finding raises serious doubts over the Hashemite regime’s commitment to modernize and build a moderate, peaceful and democratic society.

Jordan is in the midst of a full-scale political and economic crisis due to the King Abdullah II’s inability or unwillingness to build a modern democratic system. Indeed, contrary to the king’s public pronouncements regarding his commitment to political and economic reform, it is clear that the Hashemite regime’s long-term strategy is to acquire permanent status as an “emerging democracy,” without the need to actually deliver on its public commitments for political reform.
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Jerusalem Post opinion piece. More here: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=173919

ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-21-10 08:17 PM
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3. Similar stories with Eqypt. Clear lesson to be learn...

Control your border and do not allow your territory to be a base for attacks on Israel and peace and prosperity will be yours.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x311026#311037

so that is apparently untrue? is did the word apartheid being applied to an Arab country make this piece "special"?

Jordan is generously hosting some 500,000- 700,000 Iraqi refugees in spite of its limited natural resources and small size. Iraqis now account for more than 10 percent of the total population. Between the Iraqi refugees and a long-standing population of Palestinians, Jordan now hosts the largest number of refugees, per capita, of any country on earth.

Fact Sheet: Iraqi Refugees in Jordan and Syria

If you're using this as an argument to support continuing the Occupation of the West Bank, it doesn't work.

What the Jordanian government does is not relevant to the I/P dispute(other than the fact that it helps make the case that the "Jordan is Palestine" argument will forever be inappropriate).

And clearly, Palestinians are not to blame for Jordan's repressiveness.

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...for real apartheid regimes that thrive on scapegoating Israel.

That's what it tells us.

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Can I clarify that the pro-Israel posters in this thread accept that the withdrawal of citizenship from 2,700 Palestinians in Jordan constitutes apartheid?

,....and the West Bank.

Laws against women or Jews is more apartheid-like than your example.