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Jordan Islamists threaten legal action over Israel gas deal

2014-12-21

[IsraelTimes] Jordan?s main opposition Islamist party threatened Saturday to take legal action against anyone in the kingdom who signs a controversial gas deal with Israel.

Clearly they feel strongly on the subject.

Amman?s plans to buy gas from the Jewish state have aroused fierce opposition at a time of mounting criticism of Israel?s policies towards the Paleostinians.

Yeah, yeah. So shiver in the dark this winter. Enjoy!

The Islamic Action Front
...Jordan's branch of the Moslem Brüderbund...
, political wing of the Jordanian branch of the Moslem Brüderbund, said on its website that it ?strongly rejects the deal in question, no matter what the pretext, political or economic, and will prosecute all those who agree to or sign such an agreement?.

The IAF said it regretted that the government ?has stubbornly ignored the popular will to maintain suspect relations with the occupying power [Israel] and to conclude such an agreement.?

Apparently there are some Jordanians who think highly of Israel.

The 20-year-old peace treaty between Jordan and Israel is deeply unpopular among Jordanians ? almost half of whom are of Paleostinian origin.

Detractors of the September gas deal, under which Israel would supply Jordan with 45.4 billion cubic meters (1.6 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas from its Leviathan offshore field over 15 years, reject any cooperation with a country they regard as an enemy.

A source close to the deal, which has yet to be approved by the government, said it would be worth $15 billion (11.4 billion euros).

Energy-poor Jordan was heavily reliant on gas supplies from Egypt, until they ground to a halt following a spate of kabooms since 2011 on the export pipeline through Egypt?s restive Sinai Peninsula.

Parliament debated the deal on Tuesday after 79 politicians in the 150-seat house filed a motion calling for it to be scrapped.

Defending the project, Energy Minister Mohammed Hamed told parliament buying gas from Israel ?does not threaten the future of Jordan nor does it leave Jordan?s economy hostage in the hands of any country.?

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 Why is it none of the palistinians ever demand 'their' land back from Jordan?

see "Black September". Most Paleos know deep down that everything they run, they run into the ground.

Posted by: Frank G 2014-12-21 13:58

#2 When Islamists talk about "legal action", what do they mean?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-21 11:55

#1 Back through time wars have been fought, borders redrawn and countries names changed.
Yet the middle east is the only place people are coddled by their leaders to believe a false narrative about the land that they inhabit.
The Turks owned that land for almost 800 years before they lost it to the Brits.
The Brits rewarded the King of the Hashemites with his own country for being on the British side in WWI. That land became The Kingdom of Jordan, with the Jews getting a sliver of a piece of the land after WWII as their homeland despite the fact they actually could lay claim to all of the land. but they abided by the divisions set to them.
Nowhere in the world have people clung to such delusions like the palestinians.
Did the Indian citizens complain when their land was renamed Pakistan? Yeah maybe some, but not on this scale of delusionment the palestinians have practiced.
One day you live in a centuries old city.
The next day it's a refugee camp??
Why is it none of the palistinians ever demand 'their' land back from Jordan?
Why don't they accept the fact that they either are Jordanians, Gazans or Israelis.
Let it go. The New Englanders certainly have.
Enough with this campaign of terrorism to reverse history and re-redraw boundaries to conform with an alternate version of history they have been coddled and misled into believing by their corrupt leaders.
Over the years, the world has donated so much money to the "palestinians" that each man, woman and child would be millionaires already.
Instead they spend every cent on terrorism, trying to turn back the hands of time.
Ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2014-12-21 01:54

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