Jordan MPs Want End to Peace Treaty With Tel Aviv

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AMMAN, 28 March 2008 — Ten Jordanian lawmakers have presented a bill to the lower house of Parliament seeking the cancellation of the 1994 peace treaty with Israel, one of the lawmakers said.

“We submitted the draft law to lower house speaker Abdul Hadi Majali on Wednesday,” MP Hamza Mansur, who heads the six-member parliamentary bloc of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) said.

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The IAF has frequently called for the treaty to be abrogated but this is the first time it has put a formal request to the 110-member lower house.

The draft gave several reasons for scrapping the treaty, including that Israel “does not honor the agreement and is still a threat to Jordan.” It said the Jewish state “has committed premeditated crimes in Jordan, and genocide in Palestine.” In 1997, Jordan saved the life of Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal after Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence service carried out a botched attempt to poison him in Amman.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=108333&d=28&m=3&y=2008

[MaryCeleste]

1. Pfft...fringe idiots are everywhere

Jordan understands that the current situation is the best for them

[hifalutin]

2. Especially if they want

to keep on getting all the zilllions of $'s we give them.
They know which side their bread is buttered.

[oberliner]

3. US House mulls $2.7b aid package to Jordan

(MENAFN - Jordan Times) A proposed multiyear assistance package to Jordan entailing $900 million in annual funding is expected to be put to vote by the US House in July, according to a leading US congressman.

If approved, the package - which is intended to help the Kingdom implement future plans and overcome economic hardships - would be the largest assistance extended to Jordan in the history of bilateral ties.

Congressman Adam Schiff told The Jordan Times that this parcel "includes $500 million a year for three years of Economic Support Funds and $400 million a year for three years of Foreign Military Financing ".

The $2.7 billion package is being proposed for 2009-2011 at the request of Jordan to allow the country to "better plan for the future" on the basis of present and foreseen needs, Schiff said.

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093190221