Word: jordanianpalestinian
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...always a strained alliance. While serving on the committee, Abbas quarreled publicly with his chief. When Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan last February signed an accord pledging themselves to diplomatic efforts looking toward the eventual creation of a JordanianPalestinian confederation in the West Bank and Gaza, now occupied by Israel, Abbas repudiated it on the ground that only an independent Palestinian state was acceptable. Arafat's loyalists, for their part, were openly contemptuous of Abbas. Said one, after listening to Abbas harangue a crowd about the necessity of liberating Palestine by force: "He is nothing...
...adversary, Reagan did not shy away from disappointing a key friend in the Middle East. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called at the White House to make an impassioned plea for the U.S. to resume active efforts to mediate an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. He urged Reagan to invite a JordanianPalestinian delegation to Washington to discuss procedures and proposals...
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