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Israel, Jordan leaders confer after IS murder of pilot
[Al Ahram] Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday by telephone to King Abdullah II, the premier's office said, apparently their first contact since Jordan announced its ambassador was returning to Tel Aviv. "Prime Minister Netanyahu extended his condolences to the King and to the Jordanian people" over the murder of a Jordanian air force pilot by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, a statement said. Netanyahu "noted the importance of the Jordanian ambassador's return to Israel and of the joint commitment to maintaining the status quo at the holy sites" in east Jerusalem, it said. On Monday, Amman announced that its envoy would return to his post in Tel Aviv three months after being recalled over the Israeli violations at Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Jordan recalled Walid Obeidat on November 5 after the Israeli forces clashed with Paleostinians inside the flashpoint Al-Aqsa compound, with Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh describing Israeli actions as "violations" and "way beyond the limits". Jordan said the decision to return Obeidat to Israel comes after the government "felt that the situation (at Al-Aqsa) is in the right direction". Posted by: Fred 2015-02-06 |
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