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As Jordanians Call to Excise Culture of Death from School, Palestinians Back Stabbings

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As Jordan calls to fight terror by purging its education curricula of ideas that “aggrandize death,” Palestinians approve stabbings and classify car-ramming attacks as martyrdom operations. Many Jordanians are seeking the removal of radicalized teachings from Jordan's school curricula. According to research by the Middle East Media Research Institute, a survey of articles in the Jordanian media reveals there is a call on the Jordanian Education Ministry to reform school curricula from extremist Islamic thought.

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US, Israel, Jordan Agree on Solution to Jerusalem Tension

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Jerusalem—and other parts of Israel—have been wracked with riots and terror attacks that have killed at least six Israelis in the past month, primarily through stabbings and vehicle attacks against Israeli civilians. The Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site and Islam’s third, is the source of tension, which has resulted in violent clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and security forces, and an assassination attempt on Yehuda Glick, a Temple Mount activist advocating for the right of Jews and Christians to pray on the Mount.

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Israeli Doctors Save Jordanian Boy

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Last week, even as the Jordanian parliament was calling for the ousting of Israel’s envoy to Jordan (due to the self-defense killing of a Jordanian judge at the Allenby Bridge crossing), Israeli doctors at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center provided a 7-year-old Jordanian boy with his mother's donated kidney. After the boy faced critical kidney failure, his parents wrote a request to the Civil Administration Health Services for the operation to go forward at Rambam Medical Center.

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Jordan Parliament Calls for Removal of Israeli Ambassador

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Last week, after Israeli soldiers killed a Jordanian judge at the Allenby Bridge border crossing, Jordan’s parliament threatened to topple the Jordanian government if it did not remove Israeli ambassador and recall Jordan’s ambassador to Israel. Yesterday, Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour escaped a no-confidence vote by Jordan's parliament. He told the parliamentarians that the government “does not see that expelling the Israeli envoy and recalling the Jordanian ambassador serve the path of our martyr’s case." (Times of Israel)

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