Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...territories seized by the Israelis during the six-day war, the one that lends itself most to negotiation is Jordan's West Bank. The vast majority of its 900,000 Arabs remained there instead of fleeing, and the land they live on is fertile enough to support them. Moreover, many among them are not only capable of, but desirous of, coming to terms with Israel. Since the West Bank was part of Palestine for much longer than it has been part of Jordan, its people have neither a deep loyalty to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan nor a consuming...
Most active of the new pragmatists is Sheik Mohammed Ali Ja'abari, 60, the mayor of the ancient city of Hebron in the hills southwest of Jeru salem. A former Minister of Justice under Jordan's King Hussein, Ja'abari has spent the past two weeks trying to organize a conference of prominent Palestinians to determine just what form peace negotiations should take, and what they should lead to. His compatriots still disagree about whether to hold out for full independence, try to become part of Jordan again or accept Israeli citizenship in return for full local...
That may be something of an overstatement. In Hebron, Mayor Ja'abari's calls for negotiations have brought him a flood of threatening letters, the derision of Jordan's Amman radio and an attempt to blow up his house. But neither Ja'abari nor his colleagues give much importance to the violence of their critics. "I am not afraid," Ja'abari says. "I believe the great majority of the Palestine people want a solution, so they can live in peace. We are tired of war. We want better days for our children." All that keeps...
...their Khartoum summit meeting, some Arab nations finally began to patch up their quarrels with one another. They also began to deal more rationally with the West. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt's Gamal...
Management of Moslem religious affairs is gradually being handed back to the wakf religious trust committees. And the Bank of Israel has scored a financial coup by persuading the Bank of Jordan to release funds frozen in Amman so that the West Bank's shuttered banks can reopen...