Actualización de Medio Oriente

Thanassis Cambanis
Las elecciones legislativas de este mes fueron supuestas para ser una línea divisoria de las aguas en el marzo lento pero confiado de Jordania al cambio democrático. Pero subida de Hamas la' a la energía en la autoridad palestina y su toma de posesión violenta de Gaza en junio han echado una sombra pesada sobre política en Jordania, en donde un monarca de Hashemite mantiene un apretón apretado, autoritario [...]

Amir Oren
El comando mayor de la CA sostuvo un taller esta semana, el 22 de agosto, en el plan quinquenal del ejército. La CA se preparará para los panoramas siguientes en los cinco años próximos: frustrando el peligro de un país hostil que no confina con Israel que alcanza la capacidad nuclear (Irán, particularmente), una guerra con Siria, [...]

Un número de países árabes han acelerado recientemente sus programas nucleares en respuesta a la búsqueda nuclear del renegade de Irán, demandando ellos están persiguiendo átomo pacífico del `el'. Los emiratos, la Arabia Saudita, el Yemen, la Jordania, y el Egipto árabes unidos que todos tienen programas nucleares en diversas etapas del desarrollo, aun cuando la región tiene reservas enormes del aceite para producir baratos [...]

Jordan’s King Abdullah II flatly rejected a confederation with the Palestinians on July 1, calling any such proposal at the current time a “conspiracy” against his kingdom and the Palestinians, a local newspaper reported. The key US ally in the region fears that any confederation before a final settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could give [...]

The Israeli government has approved the creation of a railway linking Jordan to the northern Israeli port of Haifa, the cabinet announced on Sunday, March 11. Most of the projects will be concentrated in the Jordan Valley and will include the construction of a cross-desert canal system linking the Red Sea and [...]

Citing the risks of further delay, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Wednesday March 14, the United States must take the lead in creating conditions for a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Ha’aretz reported on February 14, that at least 25 Jordanian lawmakers have signed a petition urging the government to officially declare that Israel has “violated” the peace treaty reached between the two countries in 1994 by continuing repair and excavation work near Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Middle East is verging on three civil wars - in Iraq, Israel and Lebanon - according to Jordan’s King Abdullah in statements earlier this week. Saying that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the “emotional core” of all the conflicts in the Mid East, King Abdullah petitioned the international community to look at the “big picture” [...]

An environmental group, Friends of the Earth - Middle East, has warned of a dramatic drop in the quantity and quality of the water in the southern end of the Jordan River, following the completion of a joint Jordanian and Syrian-built dam. The group told Ha’aretz that over the next summer, the river could dry [...]

IDF preparing for “larger than ever” Gaza operation!Israeli and Palestinian media sources reported that one of two Hamas gunmen killed by the ID F on October 18, was involved in masterminding the cross-border attack in June in which two IDF soldiers were killed and Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. Meanwhile, with Kassam rockets [...]