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Thursday 12 November 2009
is that an administration
He's put [Palestinian leader) Mahmoud Abbas on the defensive and he's said 'no' to the great power, without cost and without consequences," said the analyst at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington.
The "paradox", he argued, is game machines that an administration which began with a tough policy towards the Israelis and a "sensitive" one towards the Palestinians has now shifted the onus to the Palestinians.
But he said the Obama administration has concluded that it must, at least for now, cooperate with rather than fight the Israelis on an issue like settlements.
The administration, he said, had hoped to revive negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a future Palestinian state by obtaining a total settlement freeze in return for steps by key Arab states to normalise ties with Israel.
Unlike settlements and normalisation, he said, borders, the status of the disputed holy city of Jerusalem, the freshwater pearl fate of Palestinian refugees and security for Israel are the core issues.
"They [the Obama team] need to do some fundamental rethinking about what their overall objective is and how they are going to achieve it," Miller said.
Amjad Atallah, a former legal adviser to the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, said the US shift on settlements has only weakened Abbas further and made him more reluctant than ever to enter peace talks with Israel.
"They [Palestinians] argue freshwater pearl that if the United States was not prepared to back up what it said on settlements, why would it be prepared to back up what it might say on borders?" Atallah told AFP.
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Thursday 12 November 2009
The Obama administration
The Obama administration must devise a fresh plan to restart Arab-Israeli peace talks after losing face with a backtracking on its demands for a full Jewish settlement freeze, analysts said Monday.
President Barack Obama's freshwater pearl team has disappointed many Palestinians and other Arabs who long for it to fulfil both its initial tough stance on settlements and a broader pledge to improve ties with the Muslim world, they said.
During a Middle East tour, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought Monday to reassure Arabs after angering them with her weekend praise of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to restrict settlements as "unprecedented". The chief US diplomat insisted her administration leisure chairs still opposed settlements as strongly as before.
Disputing her claim is Aaron David Miller, who served as adviser on Middle East peacemaking in previous US administrations.
"Netanyahu has produced nothing short of a masterful performance. He's outmanoeuvred us. He's freshwater pearl jewelry ingratiated himself to the American Jewish community and the administration," Miller told AFP. |
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Thursday 12 November 2009
the area was known
At the time, the area was known as the Prince's Passage, and was home to numerous famous shops such as Zahran Studio, whose owner was the former photographer for the Royal Court, and the freshwater pearl jewelry Assad Sports Shop, which catered to British officers, according to Absi.
For a young upstart like Absi, it was difficult to attract attention among many better-known companies such as Singer, he said, but conditions gradually turned in his favour. Owners of garment factories in Amman began asking for his help in procuring sewing machines through his connections at the Japanese sewing machine company Jockey, as well as in fixing their machines.
Although the Prince's Passage has passed its glory days, Absi is still in business, running the shop with the pearl necklace help of his four sons.
He guarantees the quality of his work with a one-year warranty, under which, if a customer's machine breaks again within one year of his repairs, he will repair it again for free. According to Absi, however, he has never had to do so.
Absi noted that although his trade has not made him rich, it has enabled him to take care of his family, a freshwater pearl fact with which he said he is satisfied.
"I'm totally content. This craft has allowed me to meet my needs and live a decent life."
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Thursday 12 November 2009
Absi then moved to Lebanon
Absi then moved to Lebanon to work in a repair shop, whose owner Mohammad Gloul was so impressed with him that he sent him to Germany for a three-month training course in 1958.
Absi said his first big break pearl earringscame soon thereafter when Faisal Tabaa, manager of the Industrial Development Corporation, went to Lebanon and asked Gloul for an experienced technician to operate and repair sewing machines, as the corporation intended to establish a factory in Amman.
"They were so amazed by my experience, they offered me JD25 per month," the repairman added.
Absi's reputation spread, and when he faced problems with the factory's management, Tawfik Tabaa, the manager of the pearl necklace Tricot Chic factory, hired him at once.
"At first, the factory was established on Salt Street in 1961, which was suitable for such a large enterprise as the area was deserted. Only the Civil Defence Department building was there," Absi noted, adding that the factory, which moved to Jabal Amman later in 1961, paid him JD35 per month.
In 1963, after the factory's freshwater pearl new partners, the Nouri family from Syria, reduced his salary to JD15, Absi decided to leave Tricot Chic and start his own repair shop.
After searching for an appropriate location for six months, Absi said he rented a small shop in downtown Amman next to the Kadourah factory, on the advice of its owner Talaat Kadourah. |
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Thursday 12 November 2009
AMMAN - Mohammad Absi
AMMAN - Mohammad Absi, one of Amman's oldest working sewing machine repairmen, said he discovered his talent one day in the early 1950s when his mother's sewing machine broke.
When his mother went to the naughty castles Singer Company to have the machine repaired, the company demanded 350 fils, which was a high price at the time, he explained.
So the young Absi stayed up all night trying to fix the machine himself, and after hours of work, succeeded.
"I was really thrilled to game machines bits when I fixed it because I had discovered my hidden talent. I shouted in the middle of the night, 'I did it!'" Absi, now 73, told The Jordan Times.
When Absi, also known as Abu Khamis, finished school in 1954, he joined the Arab Sewing Machine Factory to leisure chairs learn the basics of the craft, taking a job as an apprentice and earning JD6 per month.
"While I was at the factory, I learned that they sent machines to Lebanon to be fixed because nobody in Jordan knew how to repair them," he said.
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