Democratic Palestine : 37 (ص 22)
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- Democratic Palestine : 37 (ص 22)
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What is happening in Jordan? Is
democracy really taking hold in the
midst of the tyranny which has pre-
vailed in the Arab world for decades?
Or are the new democratic procedures
only a tactical retreat by King Hussein,
taken under the impact of the political
and economic crisis which threatened
to bring down the regime itself? In this
case, the monarchy will revert to rep-
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ression as soon as there is a ray of
hope that the crisis may be resolved.
Observers are divided on_ these
issues. Some consider that the swift
democratic changes are the natural
outcome of objective changes that
have occurred on_ the political,
economic and social levels in Jordan
over the past few years. In this view,
these changes are a response to those
taking place in many other parts of the
world, i.e., a Jordanian perestroika.
Others see the current situation as no
more than a repetition of the experi-
ence of the mid-fifties, at the time of
Suleiman Nabulsi’s government which
was quickly aborted by the monarchy.
A precise analysis of the background
and future of the current developments
requires us to avoid exaggeration when
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