Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seizure of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1950 had profound consequences for Jordan. Suddenly, some 900,000 West Bank Palestinians were under Jordanian rule. They, plus earlier Arab refugees from Israel, ultimately made the Palestinians the majority of Jordan's population. In contrast to every other Arab country, the Jordanian government immediately offered the Palestinians full citizenship...
Hussein was long suspect in the eyes of fellow Arabs for his openness to the West. He was denounced in the Arab world as a Western stooge in 1972 when he suggested a plan for a West Bank-Jordanian federation similar to the one that President Reagan proposed two weeks ago. But the King's standing among Arabs has improved dramatically in recent years. He won points by resisting strong U.S. pressure to bring him into the Camp David process, when he saw that it would not guarantee a return of East Jerusalem and the West Bank to Arab...
...line stand. There was little public comment from Arab leaders, most of whom will meet at a summit this week in the Moroccan city of Fez. The Arabs, who have formally designated the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, can hardly endorse Reagan's Jordanian option without much painful soul searching...
...Clearly, Jordanian participation in Palestinian autonomy negotiations would be a key to their success. The foreign ministry in Amman issued a mild statement that Reagan's initiative "contains a number of positive elements that deserve to be studied," but King Hussein said nothing. Hussein would like to regain authority over the West Bank, but he accepted a 1974 decision by an Arab summit in Rabat that only the P.L.O. could speak for the Palestinians; his country, which has a Palestinian majority, is more vulnerable to P.L.O. pressure than any other in the Arab world. Hussein dares not venture...
...will, there is a determination not to let the Palestinians ever plunge Jordan into either another civil war or another bout of border fighting with Israel. "The P.L.O. would be welcome [as a fighting force] if there were an Arab strategic fighting plan to face Israel militarily," the same Jordanian official says. "As long as such a strategy does not exist, we will not allow the rise of an armed movement within Jordan. You want to fight Israel? That means men, arms. Set up a strategy, then we are interested. Otherwise, we are not interested...