There is poverty in all countries in the world, whether that be absolute poverty or relative poverty.
I fail to see how appearing in tabloid magazines such as Hello in any way assuages the problems in Jordan. I personally don't look at a pic of QR in yet another designer gown or in a magazine and automatically make the connection that Jordan is really being reformed - Unless you totally believe everything you read and never ask questions, I fail to see how you can swallow the PR for the Hasemites. Not just the Hashemites but others too. As for human rights, well I think Tunisia started to lead the way there quite a few years ago. Mohammed 6th has started a huge programme of real reforms in Morocco that are being closely monitored by many different agencies and he is acknowledged as actually having the drive and will to push these things through. It suits Abdullah to keep the Jordanian people in an almost 'infantile' state and believing that they can't manage their own affairs without him.
I do put more of the blame for problems in Jordan at Abdullah's feet for it is HE who has the power.
As for campaigns to change things in Jordan, well they are just that, campaigns. I don't see real progress and neither do several respected international agencies. How can one stand up in the international arena and be garlanded with awards when one knows that one's own police torture people??? Just as an example.
To compare Iraq to Jordan is totally disingenuous and displays a real lack of knowledge of the region and the geo-political reality of the ME. For a start, Iraq is much more diverse and has a totally different history. Iraq is more like the former Yugoslavia than Jordan and like the former Yugoslavia when Tito died and it fragmented into factional fighting so with Iraq and the removal of the regime that it's people had lived under for 30 odd years.
As for Abdullah being concerned with human rights, well he didn't exactly say no to the free oil from Saddam Hussein or the partying with that evil animal Uday Hussein (there are pics to show this on the web)
Their talk about human rights is a joke and as for the 'children' work Rania does, well that doesn't make her special, nearly every royal woman does that and it is only a case of showing your face, doing a few tours, eating nice food, staying oin top hotels, having people fawn over one and occasionally putting an idea forward. Like all figureheads, it isn't Rania who does the 'real' work on these projects and the JRF is a continuation of an idea/project originally thought up by Queen Noor.
If only Rania and Abdullah would stop chasing the media and trying to represent themselves as something that they quite obviously are not!! It is quite insulting to the intelligence really (if you fall for the spin that is)
I prefer to look beyond the glitz and glamour and the hype and I am afraid that once I have done that, I see no substance to this couple. I think if Rania didn't have to metaphorically 'stand behind' her husband, then she might push the agenda a bit more but she won't rock the boat or maybe a divorce would await her.
I fail to see how appearing in tabloid magazines such as Hello in any way assuages the problems in Jordan. I personally don't look at a pic of QR in yet another designer gown or in a magazine and automatically make the connection that Jordan is really being reformed - Unless you totally believe everything you read and never ask questions, I fail to see how you can swallow the PR for the Hasemites. Not just the Hashemites but others too. As for human rights, well I think Tunisia started to lead the way there quite a few years ago. Mohammed 6th has started a huge programme of real reforms in Morocco that are being closely monitored by many different agencies and he is acknowledged as actually having the drive and will to push these things through. It suits Abdullah to keep the Jordanian people in an almost 'infantile' state and believing that they can't manage their own affairs without him.
I do put more of the blame for problems in Jordan at Abdullah's feet for it is HE who has the power.
As for campaigns to change things in Jordan, well they are just that, campaigns. I don't see real progress and neither do several respected international agencies. How can one stand up in the international arena and be garlanded with awards when one knows that one's own police torture people??? Just as an example.
To compare Iraq to Jordan is totally disingenuous and displays a real lack of knowledge of the region and the geo-political reality of the ME. For a start, Iraq is much more diverse and has a totally different history. Iraq is more like the former Yugoslavia than Jordan and like the former Yugoslavia when Tito died and it fragmented into factional fighting so with Iraq and the removal of the regime that it's people had lived under for 30 odd years.
As for Abdullah being concerned with human rights, well he didn't exactly say no to the free oil from Saddam Hussein or the partying with that evil animal Uday Hussein (there are pics to show this on the web)
Their talk about human rights is a joke and as for the 'children' work Rania does, well that doesn't make her special, nearly every royal woman does that and it is only a case of showing your face, doing a few tours, eating nice food, staying oin top hotels, having people fawn over one and occasionally putting an idea forward. Like all figureheads, it isn't Rania who does the 'real' work on these projects and the JRF is a continuation of an idea/project originally thought up by Queen Noor.
If only Rania and Abdullah would stop chasing the media and trying to represent themselves as something that they quite obviously are not!! It is quite insulting to the intelligence really (if you fall for the spin that is)
I prefer to look beyond the glitz and glamour and the hype and I am afraid that once I have done that, I see no substance to this couple. I think if Rania didn't have to metaphorically 'stand behind' her husband, then she might push the agenda a bit more but she won't rock the boat or maybe a divorce would await her.
