Israel seeks to prevent selling American missiles to Jordan

The Israeli army radio said yesterday that Israel tries to prevent the finalization of a deal for selling to Jordan air to air missiles of "Amram" type.

The radio added that Israel contacted with members of the US congress to prevent the selling of the American made missiles. The Israeli daily Haaretz said that Israel fears that these missile will reach by the end also to Egypt and this to lead eventually to the backtrack of the technological superiority of the Israeli air forces on its Arab neighbors.

The Israeli paper indicated that the Israeli defense minister Shaoul Mofaz and the foreign minister Silvan Shalom decided to intensify their efforts to prevent the compleion of this deal despite the fact that Jordan is not considered among the countries stand hostile to Israel after siging the peace agreement between them in 1994.