T. Belman. This is just an proposal. I stand by my prediction that the Jordan Option will be effectuated and not the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Cabinet hails proposal for border zone as a major step to strengthen long-tense ties between Jerusalem and Amman; Bennett blames Netanyahu Instagram post for frayed relations
By TOI STAFF
Prime Minister Yair Lapid (L) meets with King Abdullah II (R) in Amman, Jordan, July 27, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)
Israel on Sunday advanced plans to establish a joint Israeli-Jordanian industrial park straddling their border and connected by an existing bridge, in a sign of improving ties between the countries following years of diplomatic malaise.
The plan, dubbed the “Jordan Gateway,” will enable Israelis and Jordanians to “conveniently” cross between the sides to work on joint projects. The proposal was approved by the cabinet at Sunday’s meeting.
“Twenty-eight years after we made peace with Jordan, we are taking the good neighborliness between the two countries one step further. This is a breakthrough that will greatly contribute to the development and strengthening of the region,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid said at the cabinet meeting.
The approval for the plan came days after Lapid traveled to Amman to meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
The ever-strained ties between Israel and Jordan deteriorated in recent years, particularly following an incident in the Israeli embassy in Amman, in which an Israeli security guard shot dead two Jordanians, one of whom had stabbed him with a screwdriver. The other was apparently killed unintentionally.
The altercation immediately caused tensions between Amman and Jerusalem, which were further exacerbated by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu publishing photographs of himself hugging the security guard, who was still wanted for questioning in Jordan at the time.
“There was a severe disconnect with Jordan for years because my predecessor put up a post on Instagram of the guard who accidentally killed a Jordanian,” Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in the cabinet meeting.
“For a post on Instagram, we damaged ties with Jordan for years,” he said.
Taekwondo. Article goes on to mention 2 other Jordanian athletes, a fencer and a ping-pong player who did the same thing recently.
https://www.jns.org/jordanian-athlete-refuses-to-compete-against-israeli-peer/
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“Sire, it is said the people are revolting.”
“You said it, they stink on ice.”
Mel Brooks “History of the World Part 1”
Article fails to mention the Island of Peace Massacre and aftermath. The murderer became a populist hero and was eventually released. Anybody who is stupid and reckless enough to schedule school trips to this park should be prosecuted.