The Hashemite kingdom holds because it bends without breaking, and people here know the cost of things falling apart. You in the West see "stability" and call it complicity, but you’ve never lived on borrowed water and stranger’s electricity. I give credit on paper because I trust the mother who comes in with worn shoes, not the bank that changes its rate every Ramadan. When the streetlights flicker, we don’t blame the moon. We light what we can, how we can. Peace isn’t signed in Geneva—peace is a boy in Irbid who doesn’t throw a stone because his stomach is full for once.
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