Shawarma and Peace process, Jordan can’t have it both ways

It wasn’t Rupert Murdoch’s bap­tism in Jor­dan River only, the Jor­dan­ian King­dom pre­pared for Murdoch’s arrival with a wave of pro-Israel propaganda.

Shawarma take­away shops in Jor­dan are sell­ing their sand­wiches wrapped in printed papers, the text says “Peace process needs you”. The Jor­dan­ian gov­ern­ment fears that any new “Intifada” in pales­tine, will anger at least 200.000 Pales­tin­ian refugees in Jor­dan and with their demands to sup­port the intifada. Which is enough rea­son to sell “Shawarma wrapped in peace”.

Chil­dren in Jor­dan schools are forced to watch videos clips (of a bad acted Yemeni movie), with a mes­sage says that every bearded man and veiled woman are a ter­ror­ists. The chil­dren are also forced to answer (with Yes or No) ques­tions about the movie. Yet the Jor­dan­ian King Abdul­lah still angry, crit­i­ciz­ing Israel.