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...Hussein and his Hashemite kingdom since those days. Though the Israelis continue to occupy Jordan's West Bank, there is encouraging movement toward a peace settlement and the possibility, with Hussein's cooperation, of the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians realize that they probably could not survive as a nation without close administrative ties to Jordan, perhaps as an autonomous member of the federation that Hussein once suggested (see box). For one thing, in addition to 700,000 Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza, another...
...same unexpected tradition comes retired Israeli Major General Mati Peled, who will speak on Thursday, Feb. 10 about his advocacy of a two state solution to the Middle East debacle. Peled, who will lecture at Science Center B at 9 p.m., was the military governor of the Gaza Strip and the Jerusalem area and a memeber of the Israeli General Staff. But he has in recent months met with PLO members in Europe, and favors including the PLO in Arab-Israeli negotiations...
...favor a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state linked to Jordan...
Israel has always insisted that any West Bank-Gaza entity must exist in some kind of political and economic federation with Jordan. The Israelis have a legitimate security worry about having a new confrontation state on their borders, dominated by the hated P.L.O. They are also mildly concerned about the threat of 2 million exiled Palestinians coming to join a million kinsmen who live in the West Bank and Gaza...
Jordan West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Arafat also warned that any Palestinian group that rejected the idea−meaning primarily George Habash's Marxist, uncompromising Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine−must read itself out of the P.L.O...