Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal for a Middle East settlement." That was the way a top political adviser to Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat ex plained the significance of a diplomatic arrangement worked out last week between the P.L.O. and Jordan. The agreement, hammered out in committee meetings chaired by Arafat and Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran, pledges "joint political moves at all levels" and calls for "a special and distinctive relationship" between Jordan and a "liberated Palestine" to be created out of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
...problem they considered is how to get around Washington's refusal to deal directly with the P.L.O. Accordingly, they discussed the idea that the P.L.O. might authorize non-P.L.O. Palestinians to negotiate in the organization's behalf. They also formed what they called a Higher Jordanian-Palestinian Committee to explore the possibilities of cooperation and confederation...
...even as it concentrated on the Lebanese crisis, the U.S. was working to get negotiations going again on a larger issue, the pursuit of a wider peace in the Middle East. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin once again attacked the Reagan plan. He charged that a Jordanian-Palestinian federation would lead to a "mighty flow of modern weapons" into the newly created Palestinian homeland and a "constant war of attrition" against Israel. By contrast, he argued, Israel could maintain its present occupation and anticipate "a lengthy period of peace, be it contractual or factual." Begin seemed as determined...
...inevitably raised some fears within the Arab world. The Syrians, hostile to Jordan and fearful of losing their role as a champion of the Palestinians, wasted no time in condemning the talks. The Syrian news agency reported that five of the 15 groups constituting the P.L.O. had blasted the Jordanian federation idea as a product of "American schemes" and "reactionary Arab regimes." Three of those groups disavowed that statement, however, and Arafat's leadership did not appear to be seriously threatened. Arab moderates like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, moreover, were quietly encouraging the Jordanian-Palestinian relationship...
...been the only leader in the region to support openly the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's separate peace with Israel and to endorse the Camp David agreements. Like Ronald Reagan, Qaboos feels that the most realistic possibility for a Middle East settlement is some form of Jordanian-Palestinian confederation once Israel has returned most of the West Bank to Jordan...