Jordan's Abdullah said to refuse to speak to Netanyahu over annexation plans

Jordanian leadership eschews overtures made by Defense Minister Benny Gantz, refusing to discuss any topic related to Israel's proposed annexation scheme
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Jordanian King Abdullah II is refusing to communicate with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his government's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported Monday.
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  • Jordanian leadership is also eschewing overtures made by Defense Minister Benny Gantz, refusing to discuss any topic related to Israel's proposed annexation scheme, Ma'an quoted a Jordanian official as saying.
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    בנימין נתניהו עם מלך ירדן עבדאללה
    בנימין נתניהו עם מלך ירדן עבדאללה
    Jordanian King Abdullah II and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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    Jordan has repeatedly condemned Israel's proposed plans to extend its sovereignty into disputed West Bank territory, warning such a move could have a detrimental impact on relations between the two countries.
    The two sides signed a historic peace treaty in 1994, with Amman joining Egypt as the only Arab nations to normalize relations with the Jewish State.
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    The signing of the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel
    The signing of the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel
    The signing of the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel
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    But last month, Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said that the Hashemite Kingdom was ready to revisit its agreement with Israel if Jerusalem decided to extend its sovereignty into the West Bank, insisting the move is "illegal under international law."
    "We will not accept unilateral Israeli measures to annex the Palestinian territories and we will have to reconsider relations with Israel in all its dimensions," said Razzaz in an interview with the official Jordanian news agency Petra.
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    ISRAEL DON'T LOSS ANY SLEEP. JORDAN IS A FAILED STATE
    ISRAEL KEEPS HIM IN POWER. LET HIM GO.I RATHER HAVE HIM AS AN ENEMY. EVEN WITH THE COLD PEACE OF 1994 IT IS NO FRIEND OF ISRAEL. DON'T SUPPLY THEM WITH WATER OR GIVE THEM FREE WEAPONS LIKE 16 OLD COBRA HILLOS LET MOSSAD KEEP THEIR MOUTHS CLOSED REGARDING HIS SECURITY AND HIS ENEMIES. BE STRONG AND SMART ISRAEL. JORDAN WAS ALWAYS A CRUEL ENEMY OF ISRAEL.
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    Maybe write how Jordan ethnically cleaned WB of Jews
    and stole the land in the first place. Jerusalem has been majority Jewish since the 1800s he also ethnically cleansed Jews from their own city and occupied Jewish land.
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    A SURREALISTIC SITUATION !
    Ganz is trying to get the agreement of King Abdullah for Israel’s eventual “annexation” of the Jordan Valley. In other words, Ganz demand the permission of the King of an artificial country created illegally by Britain, the so-called Mandatory of Palestine, on 78% of territory granted irrevocably by the San Remo Conference and the League of Nations to the Jewish people. Article 25 of the Mandate for Palestine (that anyway became obsolete 14th of May 1948) didn’t grant Britain the right to create by its own initiative, by breaching Article 5 of the Mandate, another country east of the Jordan River, called at that time Trans-Jordan. Ganz needs Abdullah’s consent for imposing Israel’s laws on territory considered as Jewish since the San Remo Conference of 1920 and the 1922 League of Nation’s Mandate? A surrealistic situation! Reminds me Haim Weizmann declaring that he would agree for an independent Jewish state, only at the condition the Arabs would agree also!
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