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A senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has voiced expectations that the Boston Marathon attacks will strengthen American support for Israel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz said on Monday....
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Jordan's King Abdullah II has decided to allow Israel to use its airspace to monitor the situation in Syria and attack the country's chemical weapons facilities, French newspaper Le...
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King Abdullah of Jordan has given a frank interview in which he has criticised almost all of his fellow Middle East leaders, including his own family, while stating that...
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The Jordanian Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Amman, Daniel Nevo, and recalled the Jordanian ambassador to Tel-Aviv, Waleed Obaidat, Safa Palestinian news...
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The Action Committee for Jerusalem and Palestine has called for demonstrations in all Egyptian mosques on Friday in protest at the latest Israeli aggression against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and...
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Jordan's Minister for Information and Communication, Mohammed al-Momani, last Thursday officially announced the departure of the Israeli ambassador to Amman, Daniel Nevo. In a press conference held on Wednesday...
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Israeli authorities announced on Monday that they had cancelled the UNESCO mission due to visit the old city of Jerusalem because the Palestinian Authority had failed to keep the...
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Israel's President Shimon Peres has said that the peace agreements between his country and Egypt and Jordan "stand the test of time" as he described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
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"Do we want to live in a permanent Intifada?" asked US Secretary of State John Kerry during the World Economic Forum in Jordan. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and...
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Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour has told Maariv newspaper that the lack of progress in US efforts for the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations will have a negative impact on...
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King Abdullah of Jordan said on Sunday that there will be no confederation between his country and Palestine until and unless an independent Palestinian state is established. Such a...
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Jordanian Trade Unions have introduced a campaign to boycott Israeli products, especially agricultural produce. In a statement, the High Executive Committee against normalising ties with Israel and the Committee...
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Jordan's House of Representatives has condemned the Israeli parliament's approval of the Prawer-Begin Plan which allows for the confiscation of land and displacement of the indigenous population in the...
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A leading think-tank in Israel believes that the fall of the regime in Jordan "is no longer unlikely", a Jordanian website has claimed. The Khaberni site was quoting an...
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The Jordanian Prime Minister, Abdullah al-Nusour, announced on Monday that his country has decided to proceed with the first phase of constructing a canal linking the Dead Sea, where...
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Jordan's prime minister has sent a letter to Israel expressing his rejection of proposals by the Jerusalem Development Company to confiscate and use the roofs of buildings in the...
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Jordan's first Deputy Chairman of the Parliament Khalil Attieh demanded on Wednesday that his government expel Daniel Nevo, the Israeli ambassador to Jordan. Attieh also urged the Arab League...
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UNESCO's Executive Board adopted on Friday six decisions strongly condemning the Israeli aggressions against Palestinian cultural and historical heritage. The decisions were filed by the State of Palestine and...
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Jordan's head of the Development and Free Zones Commission, Maha Khatib, has denied the existence of any agreement or plans to establish a joint industrial zone with Israel. Khatib...
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Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are scheduled to sign an agreement on Monday to build a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The project...
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Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority have signed an agreement for the construction of a canal connecting the Dead Sea to the Red Sea at the Gulf of Aqaba,...
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Former Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has called for Israel to give priority to the neighbouring Arab countries with regards to natural gas exports, noting in particular the...
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Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh refused on Tuesday the possibility of Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley. Speaking to Jordanian state television, Jodeh said that Jordan is aware of...
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Jordan's National Anti-Normalisation Committee (NANC), which lobbies against normalising relations with Israel, has condemned Jordanian merchants who import Israeli products into the Kingdom. The Committee asked the Jordanian government...
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Egypt has renewed its condemnation of Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr denounced on Monday Israel's policies which set out to change the status quo...
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Members of Egypt's Shura (Consultative) Council have demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in protest at the ongoing violations of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem....
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January 24, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
In a comprehensive strategic sense, Jordan has a number of interests that need to be taken into account as Syria engages in an open civil-sectarian war; first of which...
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January 24, 2014
Zaki Bani Rsheid
Perhaps the Jordanian regime believed it had escaped from the bottleneck and survived the reform process that has swept the Arab region acting as an inevitable fate that can...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
Nearly a year ago, I wrote a column discussing how many people considered Israel to be the biggest loser in the events of the Arab Spring. Have things now...