Associated PressPresident Bill Clinton applauded as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, of Israel and King Hussein of Jordan shook hands after signing a peace treaty on Oct. 26, 1994.
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On Oct. 26, 1994, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Bill Clinton.
After securing a peace treaty with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in September 1993, Israel next sought peace negotiations with Jordan. The two nations reached an agreement in July 1994 to end the “state of belligerency” between them that had existed since Israel’s founding in 1948. Each side pledged to seek peace after “generations of hostility, blood and tears and in the wake of years of pain and wars.”
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Oct. 26, 1994 | Peace Between Israel and Jordan
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