Jordan MPs Want End to Peace Treaty With Tel Aviv
Abdul Jalil Mustafa, Arab News
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.
The draft law was signed by six IAF members and four pro-government deputies.
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.
“We know that the Jordanian people want to cancel the agreement, but it is not up to them,” said Mansur, a senior member of the IAF.
“According to the law, the legal committee at the lower house is now going to examine the bill before the MPs vote to approve or reject the proposal.” Jordan signed the treaty on Oct. 26, 1994, becoming only the second Arab state after Egypt to make peace with Israel.
A slim chance exists for the draft law to be passed by the Jordanian Parliament where the government enjoys a large majority, diplomats said.
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Abdul Jalil Mustafa, Arab News
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.
The draft law was signed by six IAF members and four pro-government deputies.
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.
“We know that the Jordanian people want to cancel the agreement, but it is not up to them,” said Mansur, a senior member of the IAF.
“According to the law, the legal committee at the lower house is now going to examine the bill before the MPs vote to approve or reject the proposal.” Jordan signed the treaty on Oct. 26, 1994, becoming only the second Arab state after Egypt to make peace with Israel.
A slim chance exists for the draft law to be passed by the Jordanian Parliament where the government enjoys a large majority, diplomats said.
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