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Identity crisis in Jordan

During a seminar , former Jordanian PM Abdul Ra'uf al-Rawabidah raised the issue of the division over the national identity between Jordanians and Palestinians.

Al-Rawabidah's speech was an explicit admission of the failure of the state's efforts to create a third identity that brings together the two main identities in the country.

Source: Al-Jazeera (Qatar), June 30, 2009

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