AMMAN (AFP) — Thirty Jordanian lawmakers have demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador over the Jewish state's deadly air strikes on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, an MP said on Sunday.
"Thirty deputies signed a memorandum on Saturday condemning the Israeli aggression on Gaza and demanding that the government expel the Israeli ambassador to Jordan," Bassam Haddain, who led the initiative, told AFP.
"The political atmosphere in Jordan is against Israel's arrogant polices and it is growing. We expect more MPs to sign the memo today," Sunday.
In the memo, the MPs in the 110-member lower house also demand that the government summon the ambassador to Israel and "end all forms of normalisation in response to the Israeli massacres in Gaza," Haddain said.
In an unprecedented move at the lower house, prominent MP Khalil Atiyeh, one of the signatories, stepped on an Israeli flag before burning it at a meeting as other deputies gathered around him.
Jordan signed a 1994 peace treaty with Israel, becoming only the second Arab state to do so, after Egypt.
King Abdullah II met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Saturday and has been in touch with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to "launch an Arab and international initiative aimed at ending the Israeli aggression," according to the royal palace.
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