Jordan’s Queen Orders Solid Gold Shoes as King Pushes Two-State Solution [take that, Michelle]

Jewish Press ^ | January 22nd, 2012 | Malkah Fleisher

[SJackson]

Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan has commissioned a jeweler in Calcutta, India to make shoes for her out of gold.

Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan has commissioned a jeweler in Calcutta, India to make shoes for her out of gold.

The 22-carat gold shoes will each weigh 750 grams, and will be encrusted with diamonds and topaz, according to Irish news site breakingnews.ie, citing Bengali daily newspaper Anandabazar Patrika.

The sites reported that while the queen is accustomed to wearing shoes utilizing gold threads on leather, this time the shoes will be made of solid gold. Rania has already paid an advance of almost $54,000 for the shoes, according to breakingnews.ie, with the custom footwear expected to come to a significantly higher total price.

The news comes as Jordan’s King Abdullah II began a new push for a Palestinian state on land within the State of Israel. On January 17, US President Barack Obama met with the Jordanian leader in the White House to strategize their next steps in bringing Israel and the Palestinian Authority to direct negotiations. The get-together came just a week after the first Jordanian-brokered meeting between Israeli and Palestinian Authority envoys in months.

Aside from relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the King and the President discussed the effects of the Arab Spring on Jordan.

At a press conference following the meeting, King Abdullah thanked the President for “the economic support that you’re showing Jordan in this very difficult time,” and noted that as Arab revolution sweeps the Middle East, “the economy and the situation that challenges the livelihood of Jordanians is very, very important”.

[CrazyIvan]

What is it about the name Jordan and overpriced footwear?

[SJackson]

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There are queens, and there are queens. Barry better up the clothing allowance, another Arab Spring is coming and she needs to be ready.

[DesertRhino]

Meanwhile the Palestinians (Jordanians by another name) live in grinding poverty. And a monarchy too!! How retro,,

[WellyP]

I would have thought that going to Deerfield would have done him more good!

[UnwashedPeasant]

"a new push for a Palestinian state on land within the State of Israel."

Strange that no one wanted the West Bank to be a separate state when it was controlled by Jordan until 1967. Perhaps because the Arabs there are really Jordanians. When will we admit that Jordan IS the Arab part of Palestine.

[cripplecreek]

Maybe they should have an Arab spring so they too can install an islamonazi government.

[Baynative]

Michelle Obama won’t take this lying down.

[dragonblustar]

Jordan’s Queen Orders Solid Gold Shoes

[Apparatchik]

Not Guilty!

[cripplecreek]

Queen Rania.

[Navy Patriot]

The publicists claim she was a “poor” Palestinian girl, however her father was a doctor at a Kuwait children's hospital, so “poor” is unlikely.

[cripplecreek]

according to Irish news site breakingnews.ie, citing Bengali daily newspaper Anandabazar Patrika.

Well those are some bulletproof sources.

[CrazyIvan]

She could be wearing swim fins on her feet and I wouldn’t notice.

[EEGator]

Queen Rania is really hot.

[ari-freedom]

Take that Michelle?

Nobody outdoes the wookiee

[musicman]

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[cripplecreek]

She better let her win, you really don’t want to make a wookie angry.

[Rockingham]

That’s a relief. Now we know how our foreign aid to Jordan is being spent.

[Ditter]

I am at an age when comfort is the most important thing, I can't think of anything more UN comfortable!