Jordan makes arrests for failed attack on Israel diplomats

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This sort of information requires thorough preparation and surveillance of the embassy's routine activities. Consequently, it can be assumed that some of the rings of security around the embassy, which is one of the most threatened Israeli embassies because it is situated in an Arab state, have been penetrated.

On the other hand, the explosive device caused relatively little damage to the cars. This may stem from its limited strength, from some problem with the device itself, or from poorly timed detonation.

Haaretz's analysis speculates that the parties most likely responsible for the attack are either Hizbullah or Sunni extremists.

But Al Jazeera suggests that souring attitudes toward Israel within the Jordanian public may be a factor as well. Al Jazeera's Jerusalem correspondent Jacky Rowland says that despite Jordan having a peace treaty with Israel, "Relations have been cool at best, hostile at worst since the peace treaty was signed just over 15 years ago."

"I think the point at which relations really started to cool was as people in Jordan really saw that no progress was being made in efforts to have a peace treaty between Israel and Palestinians.

"Then, relations hit an all-time low with the Israeli crackdown on the Palestinian uprising which began in 2000, and since then the Israeli seige on Gaza and the war on Gaza just over year ago.

"In a recent opinion poll in Jordan not a single person interviewed gave Israel a favourable rating or said they were willing to accept Israel or engage with it in any way."

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