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Fahad Al-Khaitan
The parliamentary discussions taking place under the dome this week on the draft Local Administration Law, after it has been thoroughly examined by the relevant committee, represent a new opportunity for a genuine democratic exercise one that can elevate the relationship between the two branches of government and make Jordanian citizens feel that the public interest takes precedence over other considerations on both sides.
For the first time in the history of Jordanian governments, a cabinet reshuffle has taken place without seeing any ministers leave or new ministers join the government.
Under no circumstances can the Mecca Mutual Defense Agreement, which brings together three major regional powers Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan be compared to the NATO alliance.
The provisions of the Jordanian Constitution give the Prime Minister the right to change his entire ministerial team without having to seek a renewed vote of confidence from the House of Representatives. This has never happened before. However, in the experience of long-serving governments, prime ministers have typically resorted to more than one reshuffle, with the result being that more than half of the cabinet is replaced within three or four years.
Anonymous videos and social media posts spread rapidly across digital platforms, falsely claiming that the Spanish government had opened the borders to Ceuta and Melilla, allowing migrants to enter freely. Within hours, hundreds of people rushed toward the border, crossing on foot and by swimming. Within days, tens of thousands had flooded the border area.
How many times has Donald Trump threatened Iran with a crushing attack after the Forty-Day War? Media outlets have counted ten such threats over the past five months, highlighting a striking lack of strategic clarity in a war whose objectives have shifted constantly.
After all the acts of destruction and civilian deaths in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu's government is not as internationally isolated as many believed. Thanks to broad U.S. backing and an intensive diplomatic campaign, Israel succeeded in persuading 82 states that are parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to vote in favor of removing the Court's Prosecutor, Karim Khan.
Just over a year after Prime Minister Jaafar Hassan's economically focused visit to Washington, the Jordanian government, represented by Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Yarub Qudah, signed what can be described as one of its most successful economic agreements with Jordan's most important strategic partner: the United States.
The widespread media backlash against an Egyptian television presenter caught my attention after he hosted Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on a talk show. Under pressure from accusations of "normalization" circulating on social media, the channel suspended the presenter and removed the interview from its platforms.
The dangerously escalating developments in the region leave the countries concerned with two choices: either act in self-defense or use the political and diplomatic leverage they possess to stop the war and return all parties to the negotiating table.
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