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The following tape concerns a recording for an EO radiobroadcast of Cornelis Hulsman interviewing a Jordan politician; ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Rawābdah in 1995; he became the Prime Minister of Jordan in 1999. The interview is in regards to the Jordan-Israeli peace settlements.
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ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Rawābdah (born 1939) is a Jordanian politician and became prime minister of Jordan in 1999. In the 1967 Six-Day War (otherwise known as the Arab-Israeli War), Israel overpowered Egypt, Jordan and Syria. It then occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem,...
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 1999
The Muslim Brotherhood movement on Friday urged the government allow deported Hamas leaders to return to Jordan and launch a dialogue with the Palestinian group.
Date of source: Thursday, November 25, 1999
Prime Minister Abdur-Ra’uf S. Rawabdeh on Wednesday told deputies that it was the Muslim Brotherhood who proposed sending Hamas leaders outside Jordan, and moving their offices abroad.
Date of source: Monday, November 22, 1999
Four leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, were released on Sunday and flown to Qatar after the case against them was dropped, Prime Minister Abdur-Ra’uf S. Rawabdeh said.
Date of source: Sunday, November 14, 1999
The government and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Saturday failed to reach a breakthrough to the deadlock amid signs that the government might refer the case of Hamas detainees to the State Security Court in few days if the Palestinian group refused to comply with Jordan’s conditions.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 1999
The optimism that followed the first round of negotiations between the Jordanian government and the Muslim Brotherhood to secure the release of Hamas resistance movement leaders from Jordanian jails seems to have ebbed.
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 1999
The government and the Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday held another round of talks to resolve the two-month-old deadlock over the fate of Hamas in Jordan but Brotherhood sources said the meeting failed to achieve its goals.
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 1999
Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Majali on Friday said the government has not yet received any response from Hamas on its proposals to end the two-month-old crisis.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Mounting Arab pressure has persuaded the Jordanian government to reverse its position on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and to enter into dialogue with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, who have agreed to act as mediators in the dispute between the two sides.