AMMAN — During a dialogue session held by the Jordanians for Development and Progress, moderated
by
MP Omar Ayassrah, former prime minister Abdur-Ra'uf
Al-Rawabdeh said that reform cannot be done the way it is now, especially
knowing that methods and models exist around
the world, and that this creates a mood of frustration among people
and feeds the rumor mill.
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Politicians are often silent either
because of their inability to speak their minds and because they do not want to
commit themselves in case they will be asked to take on responsibility or because
of fear, Rawabdeh said, decrying the “absence of government from everything
that is going on in the country” and the fact that “people can’t express their opinions because of fear”.
“Do not believe that we have a
partisan life in Jordan. In the 1990s, we tried to move to political parties with
clear platforms for action, as an alternative to embracing ideology, but people
rejected it,” he said. He added that in the last 20 years all prime ministers
were the same.
Talking about the situation in
Palestine, Rawabdeh said Jordan was obliged to reach the
Wadi Araba Peace Treaty so that “Israel recognizes us, not the other way around”, and that the
solution to the issue of Palestine will be at Jordan's expense because the
Jordan Option was realized back in 1949 through extending Jordanian nationality
to West Bankers and the unity of the two banks of Jordan in 1950.
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