From Ynet:
The United States has threatened to cut financial aid to Jordan, if the Hashemite Kingdom continues to develop its nuclear program without coordinating with Israel, the Arab media reported on Monday.
The American threat comes after Amman rejected Israeli demands to participate in extraction and enrichment of uranium, and Jordan's failure to obtain US approval for its nuclear plan, despite talks between the two parties, which lasted six months.
According to reports, the ultimatum was probably given to Amman days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judah.
” after Amman rejected Israeli demands to participate in extraction and enrichment of uranium”
Quite right too! As Israel is not a signatory of the NPT, it would be highly illegal for Jordan (a signatory to the NPT) to agree to Israel’s demand. Now, if they would just sign and ratify the NPT…………
It is also very wrong of the US to pressure Jordan to agree to an illegal act, so egregious that one must ask if the US believes in the “rule of law”?
last paragraph of Ynet article:
In other words, Israel is acting as its own Stuart Levey to punish a state that is a signatory to NPT for pursuing the rights granted under that NPT, while Israel refuses to subscribe to the same safeguards protocols.
Does this mean Israel wants to make even more nukes?
Don’t expect Israel to respect its next-door semi-colony (after they won the Jordan-Israel ‘Peace Treaty’).
Jordan has no oil, but it does have a hugely burdgeoning problem with refugees from Iraq (in 1991 – First Gulf War), (2003 – main Iraq war) and now it is fighting the insane desires of Avigdor Lieberman, etc, to deport Palestinians from ‘Israel’ (including the West Bank).
Right, Jordan is getting the Mel Gibson treatment from the U.S. & Israel. Instead of cultivating a relationship with a country that signed a peace deal, Jordan gets treated like a human dumping ground. At least they have a bit of compassion for the refugee crisis created by the U.S.
how does the headline relate to the article, or was it supposed to be sarcastic?
Yeah, obviously sarcastic. The label “conspiracy theories” is the new “heresies”, like Galileo was slandered with for pointing out the fact that the geocentrism is wrong.
Yes, what are the conspiracy theories? The tales from our media and government run with conspiracy theories all the time. Was it, like, 10:30 AM on 9/11/2001 that they were telling us a guy in a cave in Afghanistan was behind it all?
A missing Iranian nuclear scientist has taken refuge in the Pakistani embassy in Washington following claims that he had been kidnapped by the CIA.
Iran accused Saudi Arabia of handing over Shahram Amiri to the US after he went missing during a pilgrimage to Mecca a year ago. A man purporting to be Amiri subsequently appeared in a series of internet videos. In one, the man said he was studying in the US, while in another a man calling himself Amiri said he was hiding from US agents.
This morning, a spokesman for Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs in Islamabad said Amiri had been “dropped off” at the Iranian interests section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington at 6.30pm (11.30pm BST) last night.
“He was dropped there by someone,” said Abdul Basit. “He’s in the Iranian interests section, not in the Pakistan embassy per se. They are making arrangements to repatriate him.”
link to guardian.co.uk
Israel wants it all; land, soil, water, natural gas, uranium and so on, and by force if necessary. It’s not just about Jordan, Lebanon is also in its sights:
Israel Eyes Lebanon’s Offshore Gas Reserves
By RANNIE AMIRI
“We are not obliged to state the limits of our State.”
– David Ben Gurion, 14 May 1948
In all regional disputes, big or small, Israel will invariably threaten or implement violence. It is the preferred method of conflict resolution. The recent discovery of natural gas reserves in Lebanese territorial waters, and Israel’s claim to them, is no exception.
It didn’t take long for Israeli infrastructure minister Uzi Landau to raise the prospect of war. That is, if Lebanon attempts to prevent his country from exercising full control over the field despite portions apparently falling within Lebanon’s exclusive economic zone.
“We will not hesitate to use our force and strength to protect not only the rule of law but the international maritime law,” he said. It was an absurd statement, of course, in light of the utter contempt Israel held for maritime law in the attack (in international waters) on the Turkish relief flotilla.
… In the latest spat between the two countries still technically at war, one can see how the situation might deteriorate. Indeed, Landau’s threat was one Prime Minister Netanyahu endorsed with his silence.
Will this be the cases belli Israel has been desperately seeking since the July 2006 Lebanon war ended in a humiliating draw?
link to counterpunch.org
This threat is real. Jordan sold out its sovreignty to the US and at the same time, Israel by signing the surrender (peace treaty) with the promises of financial and economic support. What the Kingdom didn’t realize is the long term cost of this surrender also includes remaining a puppet kingdom for the US and remaining a sub economic power to Israel to ensure Israel retains economic superiority in the region.
I keep wondering why the king doesn’t replace his red Keffiyeh with a kippot.
Is this another nail in the coffin of Israel’s nuclear ambiguity? Does it prove that successive US governments have ignored the Symington Amendment regarding aid to a nuclear power? How does Israel think destabilizing yet another neighbor would help its security concerns? Madder by the bloody day!
apparently YNet has taken down the article.
wazzup?
Quick, grab it before it disappears from there too:
link to vosizneias.com