Israeli Envoy Says Jordan Peace Treaty Is in Jeopardy Over Al Aqsa Mosque Unrest!

• Israeli Envoy Says Jordan Peace Treaty Is in Jeopardy! 
  by Joshua Mitnick, http://online.wsj.com/ 
  Israel’s Top Envoy to Jordan Warned That the Two Countries’ Peace Treaty Was at Risk From Clashes Around Jerusalem’s Holy Shrines.
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  TEL AVIV—Israel’s top envoy to Jordan warned that the two countries’ peace treaty was at risk of collapse from clashes around Jerusalem’s holy shrines and implicated his own government for failing to calm tensions, in a rare public criticism from a serving diplomat.
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  Ambassador Daniel Nevo said at a conference on Monday that battles at the Al Aqsa Mosque and visits there by Israeli right-wing legislators who inflamed Muslim opinion by advocating to end a ban on Jewish prayer on the Old City Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary, could spark a crisis.
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  Mr. Nevo suggested that declarations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel would uphold the religious status quo at the site—holy to both Jews and Muslims and overseen by Jordan—was inadequate to calm relations with Jordan.
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  “Imams are saying the Jews are conquering or penetrating Al Aqsa.…It’s enough to put all this peace treaty in jeopardy,’’ said the career diplomat, who was speaking at a Hebrew University conference on the 20th anniversary of the peace treaty.
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  “The government of Israel cannot allow extremists to take over Al Aqsa, and do whatever they want to do, and change the status quo….This is not acceptable. This thing can explode everything,” he said.
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