A Storm in the Face of the American Ambassador

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It did not dawn on the ambassador’s attackers to ask themselves this question: Is it possible for a newly appointed diplomat to declare such provocative and inaccurate comments in public?

A Storm in the Face of the American Ambassador
Published in Al Ghad (Jordan) on 23 September 2014 by Fahed Al Khitan [link to original]
Translated from Arabic by Mireille Azzam. Edited by Laurence Bouvard.
Posted on October 3, 2014.

It’s no exaggeration: Dozens of articles and hundreds of comments on Facebook and Twitter have poured their anger onto Alice Wells, the American ambassador in Amman, Jordan, based on her alleged statement that the number of Jordanians makes up no more than 27 percent of the kingdom’s population.

Highly educated intellectuals and writers have succumbed to the trap and been dragged into a fierce campaign against her personally and against Americans as well.

Some were drawn into stirring up old history by reminding the American ambassador of the crimes against the native Indians. Others have led a vehement campaign to defend the Jordanian identity against the alternative nation conspiracy insinuated by this evil statement.

Two days later, it turned out that whoever had circulated the statement attributed to the ambassador had turned it upside down. Unlike what was reported in the media, it was simply Wells inquiring about how truthful it is that 27 percent of the Jordanian population are refugees.