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Jordanian lawmakers blast Israel for Palestinian homeland remarks
Sep 22, 2011, 16:02 GMT
Amman - Jordan's parliament on Thursday condemned remarks by an Israeli backbencher proposing the Hashemite Kingdom as a substitute Palestinian homeland, and urged the government to officially protest to the Israeli ambassador over such 'offences.'
'We categorically reject such crazy utterances by Israeli officials which could only lead anew to the escalation of conflicts in the region,' legislators said in a statement published by official Petra news agency.
Two days earlier, the right-wing Israeli opposition lawmaker Arieh Eldad filed a petition at the Knesset envisaging Jordan as an alternative homeland for the Palestinians.
Israel seized East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war.
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