Word: jordanian
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...Jordan would accept the Allon plan, under which the West Bank will be demilitarized, and Israel would keep a strip of fortified settlements along the Jordan River to safeguard its borders. There would be no separate Palestinian state, but the people of the West Bank would retain their Jordanian citizenship and they would have access to the East Bank by means of a corridor at Jericho between the Israeli border settlements...
...border between countries would be changed in two minor ways. The Latrun salient, a bit of Jordanian land that juts into Israel at the Trappist monastery of Latrun on the road to Jerusalem, would be given to Israel. So would a small chunk of land farther south in the Kfar Etzion area...
City planning is not ordinarily grist for international relations, but Jerusalem is not an ordinary city. Shrine of three faiths, symbol of Jewish resurgence, the ancient-modern metropolis of 210,000 Jews and 70,000 Arabs has assumed an increasingly Jewish character since the Jordanian sector was captured during the Six-Day War in 1967. Of all the territories occupied at that time, only East Jerusalem, including the entire Old City, was brought fully under Israeli...
...status is finally settled before it constructs more housing. In an analogy for Americans, he argues: "You don't stop urban development in Washington until you solve the black-white problem." But Israel is literally bulldozing its way to Jewish control over the limestone and sand of Jordanian Jerusalem before any peace negotiations can be held. Obviously, such an effort has broad political repercussions. Twice since 1967, the United Nations has protested Israeli annexation; last week Secretary-General U Thant complained once again. The United States, which along with 32 other nations pointedly maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv...
...hill on which the Prophet Samuel is supposed to have been buried and from which the Crusaders caught their first view of the golden city they had journeyed so far to rescue. In 1948 and again in 1967, Nebi Samuel was an artillery platform from which Jordanian gunners devastatingly shelled the modern Jewish city. To eliminate that threat forever is a principal reason for Israel to build apartments on the hill...