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Tensions Growing Between Israel and Jordan

Linda Gradstein

   JERUSALEM - Despite marking 25 years of a peace treaty, there are
   growing tensions between Israel and its neighbor Jordan. Israeli
   officials have long said the peace treaty with Jordan, and the
   intelligence cooperation that followed, was one of the country's most
   significant foreign policy successes.

   Neither Israel nor Jordan publicly celebrated the 25th anniversary on
   Oct. 26, another sign of the growing tensions. Earlier this week,
   Jordan recalled its ambassador from Israel to protest Israel's ongoing
   detention of two Jordanian citizens, Hiba Labadi and Abdul Rahman Miri.
   Jordan also is holding an Israeli citizen who crossed the border into
   Jordan illegally.

   Labadi was detained on August 20 at the border crossing between Israel
   and the West Bank, on her way to celebrate a family wedding. Miri was
   arrested on September 12. Both are being held in administrative
   detention without charges.

   In a statement, Israel's Shin Bet security service said they had been
   detained "in light of suspicious of their involvement in severe
   security violations."
   

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