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Beirut and Amman lie 140 miles apart, and the jet flight between the two cities normally takes only 40 minutes. These days, however, the journey is an extended and somewhat nerve-wracking odyssey. Passengers aboard Alia (Royal Jordanian Airline) Caravelles are subjected to a thorough and intimate antihijack body check; still, four mid-air hijackings have been foiled, while another plane was shot at by anti-Jordanian guerrillas while taking off. After leaving Beirut, Alia Caravelles must fly out over the Mediterranean toward Cyprus and then to Mersa Matruh, swing inland over Egypt to Luxor, turn again to cross...
...price that Jordan is paying for King Hussein's suppression and summary expulsion last summer of Palestinian guerrillas who were doing more damage to his kingdom than they were to Israel. Ever since, Jordan has been virtually blockaded by its Arab neighbors. Syria and Iraq barred Jordanian planes from their airspace, and Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods are brought in through Jordan...
Today, though, the primary battle over Jerusalem is political. The city stands at the heart of the bitter dispute about the future of the occupied territories captured by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967. During that war, Israeli troops seized the Jordanian-held Old City and other Arab sectors. Even before the guns went silent, the Israelis declared that, whatever the fate of the other occupied territories, a reunited Jerusalem had returned to Israel forever. Confirming that view, two weeks after the war Israel's Parliament decreed that Jordanian Jerusalem had been annexed in an "administrative unification...
...contrast to the Jordanian government, which violated an 1852 agreement on the status quo of the holy places when it barred Jewish pilgrims from the Wailing Wall, Israel allows access to the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque to all Moslems, even those from nations with which it is technically at war. In fact, Israel's occupation has been altogether benevolent-with one exception. Earlier this year, Israel's housing minister mounted "a Zionist exhibition" by confiscating Arab land for high-rise apartments to be occupied by Jewish families. The proposal, since scaled down in response...
...centuries have political rights too. For justice to be served, their rights must be considered even if Jerusalem, in a final settlement, remains under overall Israeli control. In spite of the material benefits brought by unification, the Arabs in Jerusalem still have second-class rank. They carry both Jordanian passports and Israeli I.D. cards, vote in municipal but not in national elections, and have little effective voice in city operations, partly because many refuse to cooperate with Kollek. They live in wary coexistence not only with Israel but also with Hussein, who alienated them last year by turning his Bedouin...