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...expect the other partners in the peace negotiations to assist in the implementation of what has been agreed upon with the Palestinians. I don't see a problem signing a peace treaty with Jordan tomorrow if they limit the issues to Jordanian-Israeli problems. It will facilitate negotiations with Syria, but maybe on a longer timetable...
...future is extremely bright," Hausman said."In the next several weeks, Israeli, Jordanian andPalestinian economists will begin to transform anagreement on paper into policies for free tradeand joint economic development...
...guard against a collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement if Arafat is killed, Washington should encourage other Arab states to recognize Israel immediately. Still in debt to the U.S. for the Gulf War, the Saudis and the gulf emirates can be cajoled, and a quick, final Jordanian-Israeli agreement should be a top U.S. priority...
...next morning, within hours of Israel's declaration of independence, five Arab armies invaded the country from all directions. The Jewish section of Jerusalem was besieged for several months, bombarded by Jordanian artillery from the east and by Egyptian forces from the south. What had been, since the beginning of the century, a neighborly feud between Arabs and Jews turned that night into a major international...
Back in the Jordanian city of Zarka, his father and brothers wept openly as they insisted Salameh was innocent. They spoke of the many letters they had received from Salameh praising the free and democratic society in which he now lived. They also received financial help. A local money changer says he cashed checks from America for sums that ran as high as four figures. "Mohammed wanted to go to the U.S.A. to make money and help me," says his father Amin Abdul-raheem Salameh, a retired Jordanian army officer. "He said, 'I am ready to work in America...