Israel Protests Jordan Letter to Terrorists' Families
Israel has sent a formal formal protest to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry after Jordan's prime minister sent a letter to relatives of the terrorists who brutally murdered four rabbis and killed a policeman in a Jerusalem synagogue last week.
According to reports in The Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz, Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Daniel Nevo filed the protest Monday, a rare occurrence for Israel's government, which attempts to keep relations with Israel's Arab peace partner of 20 years on an even keel.
Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour addressed letters to Jordanian relatives of the terrorists, who lived in the Jerusalem area.
Israel's Channel 2 reports that Ensour wrote: "I ask Allah to wrap them abundantly with mercy, and with his contentment, and that he will give all of you patience, recovery from agony, and good comfort."
Last week the Jordanian parliament held a moment of silence before a cabinet meeting and read Koranic verses to honor the killers.
The attackers were armed with axes, meat cleavers, and a gun, and left the rabbis, who had come for morning prayers in a west Jerusalem synagogue, in pools of blood.
The terrorists were later killed in a shootout with police and their homes in east Jerusalem were destroyed, along with the home of a man who had earlier shot and seriously wounded Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick on a Jerusalem street.
