Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seething with frustration over losing the fertile land of the Jordan River's West Bank. His people increasingly show their open admiration for the self-styled commando groups of Palestinian Arabs that are striking out against the occupying Israelis. Before Hussein can consider making his peace with Israel, he must leash the commandos. Last week, as the king prepared to fly back to Amman after a month of rest and minor medical treatment in London, the shock waves of struggle were reverberating throughout his kingdom...
...immediate cause was a perceptible move toward negotiations with Israel. In indirect contacts in New York and London, both sides spelled out in more detail than ever before their terms for a settlement. Israel offered to with draw from most of the occupied territory and to give Hussein custody of Jerusalem's Moslem shrine. The sticking point remained Jerusalem itself. Israel insists on retaining the Old City, while Hussein demands its return, as well as repatriation of Arab refugees...
Fedayeen Power. Even those highly tentative talks have stirred the revolutionary feelings of the commandos, or fedayeen, who are adamantly opposed to dealings of any sort with Israel. They wield political power in Jor dan far out of proportion to their numbers, which probably total no more than 5,000 active terrorists. They have the fervent support of Jordan's 700,000 displaced Palestinians, who owe no particular allegiance to the Hashemite Hussein, and the open sympathy of many officers in the Jordanian army...
...chance to resign. Informed in London of the Cabinet's truckling, a furious Hussein privately spoke of dismissing Talhouni and the Cabinet. It is obvious that Hussein will somehow either have to cow the fedayeen or bow entirely to their will, forgoing any chance of peace with Israel. Last week the largest fedayeen organization, El Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware that his grandfather, King Abdullah...
Enunciating Israel's "principles of peace," Foreign Minister Abba Eban made the small but key concession that Israel would not demand face-to-face discussions with the Arabs, until now an Israeli precondition for negotiations. But, insisted Eban, any agreement would have to be signed by all parties. Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad revealed that he would be willing to negotiate with Jarring a "timetable" to put into effect the U.N. Middle East resolution passed last November. In effect, it called for both Israeli troop withdrawals and Arab recognition of the right of every state...