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From Haaretz the isreali paper
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-jordan-the-only-democracy-in-the-middle-east-1.6163001
The country’s king is more democratic, and its police carry on a respectful dialogue with demonstrators. In Israel, every police officer is a walking piece of steel
Hundreds of thousands of Jordanians have thronged the streets of Amman and other cities of the Hashemite kingdom in heated demonstrations. As I write this, not a single Jordanian protester’s knee has been broken, either before being arrested or after, if there have been arrests at all. Not a single mayor has criticized demonstrators from outside his city on the pretext that they were inciting people to violence.
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And I haven’t even said anything about the demonstrations at the Gaza border fence; some people are amazed at the number of people who have stayed alive thanks to the mercifulness of Israel’s border snipers.
And if the truth is a guide to history, the time has come to clearly declare that Jordan and not Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. By the way, Israel’s brutal approach toward demonstrators other than West Bank settlers is everyone’s inheritance: social justice protesters, demonstrators against corruption and protesters from the Ethiopian community. All the government has to do is cram down our throats the claim that, if we were in an Arab country, we wouldn’t be able to demonstrate.
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-jordan-the-only-democracy-in-the-middle-east-1.6163001
The country’s king is more democratic, and its police carry on a respectful dialogue with demonstrators. In Israel, every police officer is a walking piece of steel
Hundreds of thousands of Jordanians have thronged the streets of Amman and other cities of the Hashemite kingdom in heated demonstrations. As I write this, not a single Jordanian protester’s knee has been broken, either before being arrested or after, if there have been arrests at all. Not a single mayor has criticized demonstrators from outside his city on the pretext that they were inciting people to violence.
To really understand Israel and the Middle East - subscribe to Haaretz
And I haven’t even said anything about the demonstrations at the Gaza border fence; some people are amazed at the number of people who have stayed alive thanks to the mercifulness of Israel’s border snipers.
And if the truth is a guide to history, the time has come to clearly declare that Jordan and not Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. By the way, Israel’s brutal approach toward demonstrators other than West Bank settlers is everyone’s inheritance: social justice protesters, demonstrators against corruption and protesters from the Ethiopian community. All the government has to do is cram down our throats the claim that, if we were in an Arab country, we wouldn’t be able to demonstrate.
