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...meet with Hussein. But instead Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia and then to Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait and Syria. Arafat's aim was to shore up Arab support before making any commitment to King Hussein. Arafat did not see Syrian President Hafez Assad, who is strongly opposed to Jordanian participation in peace talks, but he did deliver a fiery speech to a large throng of supporters in Damascus. The next day Arafat arrived in the Jordanian capital in a silver Mercedes after a three-hour drive from Damascus...
...want: control over their land. But Arafat has also come under pressure from hard-line P.L.O. factions who oppose negotiations under U.S. auspices. At a meeting in Algiers last February of the Palestine National Council, the de facto P.L.O. parliament, Arafat had hoped to obtain backing for joint P.L.O.-Jordanian initiatives. But although Arafat won a minor victory in blocking outright rejection of the Reagan plan, the P.L.O. would not surrender its representation of the Palestinians. Says a U.S. diplomat in Washington: "It confirmed Arafat's leadership but left him, and us, uncertain about how much room...
...Israel, notably by former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, that the Palestinians already have a state in Jordan. Implicit, though never stated, in that argument is the idea that King Hussein should turn power over to the Palestinians, who represent some 65% of the kingdom's population. Says a Jordanian politician close to the palace: "If we do not force the Israelis to negotiate about the West Bank now, they will force us to negotiate over the East Bank later." Hussein also fears that unless broader peace talks are initiated soon, American attention will be diverted to the 1984 presidential...
Israel's inquiry has, thankfully, ended. Yet countless more remain: -- Where is the Syrian inquiry into last year's slaughter of 10,000 of her own people in the fifth largest city. Hama? -- Where is the Jordanian investigation of the September 1970 Black September Massacre of 10,000 Palestinians? --Where is the Somalian account of the October 21 massacre of 500 in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia...
...officials hoped that King Hussein would still find a way "one fine day," as Shultz put it, to enter negotiations over the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. He is expected to meet with Arafat again soon, perhaps to pursue the idea of a Jordanian-West Bank peace delegation whose makeup would be acceptable to the P.L.O. Hussein has said that he would reach a decision by March 1. But with no action on the Lebanese withdrawal talks, that statement is likely to be delayed. Says an Administration official: "Hussein set that March 1 date when it looked like...