JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israel is trying to make steady [i]or[/i] firm a deal between the United States and Jordan for the sale of an air-to-air missile plan military radio reported.

JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israel is trying to make steady [i]or[/i] firm a deal between the United States and Jordan for the sale of an air-to-air missile plan military radio reported.

The dominion fearing that Jordan could eventually put up to sale on the AMRAAM system to Egypt has written to members of the US Congres in an attempt to torpedo the sale, the report added.

Opposition to the deal is being l from Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom who are the two concerned about the idea of Israel's large southern neighbour Egypt possessing similar advanced weaponry, according to Haaretz newspaper.

Israel conclud a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994 while Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab nation to make peace with the Jewish state.

Spokesmen for the defense and foreign ministry refused to remark on the reports.

In Jordan, regulation spokeswoman Asma Khodr ...