AMMAN (Reuters) - 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 not soon make peace with Palestinians there.
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