On September 20th Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, will address the UN General Assembly and make a bid for Palestinian statehood.
As the e-mail said, leading up to the vote there are probably going to be pro-Palestinian demonstrations throughout the Middle East - especially in countries with large Palestinian populations...
WELL
according to the U.S State Department's website, there are about 1.9 million Palestinian refugees living in JORDAN today and some estimates say that HALF of Jordan's people are of Palestinian origin!
Hopefully the rallies will remain peaceful and help to further the Palestinian cause - hopefully the Jordanian government won't respond to demonstrators in a Syria-like, abuse of power, BS way! As Arabs would say, In Shah Allah ( meaning if God willing or hopefully for us more secular peeps) everything goes well with the protests that they're expecting in the Greater Amman Municipality Square and the Israeli Embassy in downtown Amman, as well as the northern and western border areas with Israel
Definitely will be interesting to follow the events of the upcoming month...from my new apartment in AMMAN (which i move into next week!!!)
Good article about Palestinians' plan to enhance their likelihood of getting the results they want on Sep. 20th
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/palestinian-protest-plan-_n_923688.html
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