In a recent article in the Jordan Times, it was reported that ?opposition parties... urged Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb to scrap the... peace treaty with Israel, dismiss its ambassador in Amman and stop all normalization activities....? The letter calling for ending relations with the Jewish state was signed by representatives of several opposition parties, united in a committee to ?protect Jordan and combat normalization [with Israel],? the newspaper said.
According to the Jordan Times, the committee ?claimed that the government was ?forcing? normalization on the country's citizens and preventing any counter move. ?Your Cabinet has moved too far in the normalization process with the Zionist enemy.... We urge you to halt all contacts and all forms of official visits to the enemy entity,? the statement continued.?
The Jordanian newspaper reported the government reaction to the letter, rejecting the claims therein, albeit anonymously: ??the government did not and will not force normalisation on citizens.? The official, who asked not to be named, said the government enforces laws enacted by the legislative authorities. These laws, related to Jordan's peace treaty with Israel, protect Jordanian citizens' rights, the official stressed.? In addition, the Jordan Times explained, the government has reiterated many times the official view that such ?anti-normalization activities, ?which included issuing ?black lists? of ?normalizers,? were harmful to the national economy and some of the country's citizens.? Putting teeth into its views, a special Jordanian court found that the anti-normalization committee of professional unions is illegal, the newspaper recalled, ?and the government dissolved both groupings.? Which explains why the ?opposition parties? statement also called on the government to reconsider ?all temporary laws? which they perceived as curbing public and press freedoms.?
Dismissing the opposition complaints, ?the government official commented that ?the opposition parties have the right to express their opinion,?? the Jordan Times concluded.
According to the Jordan Times, the committee ?claimed that the government was ?forcing? normalization on the country's citizens and preventing any counter move. ?Your Cabinet has moved too far in the normalization process with the Zionist enemy.... We urge you to halt all contacts and all forms of official visits to the enemy entity,? the statement continued.?
The Jordanian newspaper reported the government reaction to the letter, rejecting the claims therein, albeit anonymously: ??the government did not and will not force normalisation on citizens.? The official, who asked not to be named, said the government enforces laws enacted by the legislative authorities. These laws, related to Jordan's peace treaty with Israel, protect Jordanian citizens' rights, the official stressed.? In addition, the Jordan Times explained, the government has reiterated many times the official view that such ?anti-normalization activities, ?which included issuing ?black lists? of ?normalizers,? were harmful to the national economy and some of the country's citizens.? Putting teeth into its views, a special Jordanian court found that the anti-normalization committee of professional unions is illegal, the newspaper recalled, ?and the government dissolved both groupings.? Which explains why the ?opposition parties? statement also called on the government to reconsider ?all temporary laws? which they perceived as curbing public and press freedoms.?
Dismissing the opposition complaints, ?the government official commented that ?the opposition parties have the right to express their opinion,?? the Jordan Times concluded.