Jihad Abu Falah
Albawaba.com – Amman
Jordan’s Prime Minister Ali Abu Ragheb has said that Jordan cannot expel the Israeli ambassador because this “needs an international equation that involves different political variables,” according to the head of the Professional Associations Council, Saleh Armouti.
Armouti, who headed a delegation representing professional associations and political parties for a meeting with the premier, said that anti-Israeli activities “will not stop until the government meets the demands of the Jordanian masses,” who have repeatedly called on the government to take moves against Israel’s “massacres of the Palestinian people.”
On Thursday, the Jordanian cabinet condemned in a statement the Israeli practices during the violence in the West bank and Gaza Strip.
Armouti and the accompanying delegation had been part of a demonstration that headed for the prime ministry to deliver a memorandum stating their demands.
They reiterated their memorandum and demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador “in a period not exceeding three days,” exerting efforts to protect the Palestinian people especially those of the 1948 group, the immediate curb of normalizations with Israel and working to hold the Arab summit sooner than October 21st.
The Jordanian police cracked down on another demonstration in Amman in which 400 protestors set out after Friday prayers from a mosque near the Israeli embassy in the Rabia suburb.
The police arrested 25 of the demonstrators who were rallying in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against the Israeli attacks on the West Bank and Gaza, despite a ban on such activities by the government.
Armouti insisted that such rallies will continue and no permission will be sought from the government.
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