Jordanians rally to demand closure of Israeli embassy over judge's killing

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Jordanians demonstrated on Friday to urge the government to shut the Israeli embassy and scrap its unpopular peace treaty with the Jewish state after a Jordanian judge was shot dead by an Israeli soldier at a border crossing. Jordan is one of only two Arab states to have formally ended hostilities with Israel but this has never won much domestic favour given Israel's continued occupation of the neighbouring West Bank and fears of a spillover of violence if Israel does **t soon make peace with Palestinians there. In Jordan, where many people are of Palestinian origin and are close to West Bank kin on the other side of the Jordan River, the shooting incident triggered the biggest public outpouring of anger against Israel in the last few years. An Israeli soldier shot dead Raed Zeiter, 38, a respected Jordanian judge, at close range on Monday after a heated argument broke out while he was making his way to the West Bank via the Allenby bridge border crossing.

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