”The move by the owner of the restaurant represents a daring and correct behavior because it reflects the conscience of Jordanians who reject all forms of normalization with the Zionist enemy,” IAF spokesman Mohammad Zoyoud said in a statement.
”We reject all treaties with the Zionist enemy and consider them not binding on our people,” he added.
The owner of the restaurant, Salwa Barghouti, reportedly ordered a number of Israeli tourists out of her restaurant in Aqaba last week, after getting drunk and joking about Arab clients.
An Israeli woman tourist lodged a complaint with the Jordanian police, who ordered Barghouti to apologize but she refused, media reports said.
Jordan concluded a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, but the Islamic-led opposition and trade unions are still against the normalization of ties with the Jewish state.
Zoyoud also lashed out at the world human rights group, the Human Rights Watch, accusing it of ”interfering in Jordanian internal affairs” because it described the incident as of ”racial connotations” and urged the Jordanian authorities to investigate it.
