ISRAEL JORDAN RELATIONS

Israel Jordan Relations

Israel Jordan Relations

After 16 years the ceremony of declaration of the Convention to the world, and to deposit copies of the treaty with the United Nations, Amman is still acting with Tel Aviv, gently, in a manner closer to the secret, for several reasons the most important scene of the sensitivity of the domestic arena (Herzog and Chaim, 2003).

Strength of the relationship reflected with the level of bilateral cooperation continued, particularly in incising the security, despite the absence of the Jordanian ambassador for the international diplomatic arena in Tel Aviv more than once to intermittently since that broke the second Palestinian intifada at the end of 2001, and leave matters of the Department of the bilateral-based business and most recently the appointment of Ambassador Ali Ayed Jordanian Minister of State for Media Affairs in order to remain vacant and withdrawn in a calm response to the aggression of Israel against the fleet of freedom the end of May (May) last year.

Reads from local newspapers, or watching the news bulletin on state television, thinks that Jordan is still in a state of hostility with Israel, despite the strong relationship that reflects the depth of the common strategic interests (Harkabi and Yehoshofat, 2001).

Even a way to provide news bilateral activities involving extremely cautious. For example, no problem to show the Jordanian official receives delegations of Arabs in Israel represent the Knesset, or economic activities and political, but there is the absence of an almost complete for most of the meetings of bilateral cooperation since the success of the Israeli Likud Party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's retreat from its commitments under the peace accords with the Palestinians. Perhaps the Jordanian government has chosen to resort to extreme caution because of the style atmosphere of political realism, and in order not to raise the ire of most Jordanians, especially since half of them of Palestinian origin were forced to emigrate from their country after the 1948 war and continue to cling to the right of return and compensation according to the provisions of United Nations resolutions (Dupuy and Trevor, 2002).

A large number of opponents, on the basis of ideology, the right of Israel to exist, in addition to the control of the popular hostility toward the rulers of Tel-Aviv because of the practices of repression, and fear of the expansionist ambitions. It also highlights reflection on Israel to resume settlement activity, particularly in Jerusalem because it will narrow down on Palestinian towns and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, which calls for the Authority to be the capital of a future Palestinian state. There is also a file of Jordanian prisoners who are languishing in Israeli prisons because of operations carried out against Israel, and Israel refuses to release them as a gesture of goodwill towards Jordan, even though he had already released prisoners to their traditional enemy, Hezbollah, in a political deal embarrassed Jordan a lot (Hertzberg and Arthur, ...