Ten opposition members of Jordan's Parliament, including six Islamists, introduced a bill calling for the dissolution of the 1994 peace treaty with Israel.

The treaty ``is unfair and hurts Jordanian, Palestinian and Arab interests,'' lawmaker Hamza Mansur said in an interview today in the capital, Amman. Mansur, among the Islamist legislators who presented the proposal yesterday in the lower house, heads the Islamic Action Front, a six-member bloc from the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed the treaty on Oct. 26, 1994. Jordan became the second Arab country to have a treaty with the Jewish state. Egypt and Israel signed a peace accord in 1979.

Israel ``proves every day that it is a source of evil in the region and it threatens the security of the Middle East and it commits crimes against the Palestinian people and, contrary to this, the United States continues to support it unconditionally and becomes a partner in the crimes of the Zionist entity,'' Mansur said.

There was no specific comment on the bill from Israel's government.

``Our relations with Jordan are conducted with the king and the government and we know they appreciate being at peace with us,'' Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said in a telephone interview from Jerusalem, when asked about the Jordanian opposition's proposal.

The Islamic Action Front, the largest opposition group in Jordan, won six of Parliament's 110 seats in elections in November, down from 17 in the 2003 vote. Most of the remaining seats went to supporters of King Abdullah, a close U.S. ally.

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