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king abdullah ii fayez al-tarawneh ali abu al-ragheb islam irbid , transjordan 250px president of the senate prime minister of jordan 18 february 1939 24 october 2013 4 march 1999 defense.gov news photo 990520-d-9880w-077 . jpg abdelraouf al-rawabdeh
 19 june 2000 abdelraouf salem nahar al-rawabdeh american university of beirut
abdelraouf al-rawabdeh

abdelraouf al-rawabdeh -lrb- ; born 18 february 1939 in irbid -rrb- was prime minister of jordan from 4 march 1999 until 19 june 2000 , a leading political figure from the north city of irbid in jordan .
in a speech which aired on al-jazeera tv on june 27 , 2009 -lrb- as translated by memri -rrb- al-rawabdeh described the state of israel as `` a cancerous body '' which can be confronted `` in one of two ways : if you have the power , you use it to eradicate the cancer .
but if you do n't have the power , you try to contain the danger , until you obtain the power you need in order to eradicate it . ''
on 24 october 2013 he was named president of the senate .
al-rawabdeh is the first president of the enlarged senate , which now has 75 members , where previously there had been 60 members .
