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...minutes scheduled. The Syrians repeated their commitment to withdraw promptly from Lebanon if Israel does the same. "The U.S. was encouraged by the serious character of the exchange," said State Department Spokesman John Hughes. To other Arab ministers, including Jordan's Marwan Kasim, Shultz emphasized the need for Jordanian participation in Reagan's peace plan for the region...
...Palestinians need a state and the Israelis must realize this before there is any peace," said Zainab Hasham, a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School and a Jordanian Palestinian...
...seizure of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1950 had profound consequences for Jordan. Suddenly, some 900,000 West Bank Palestinians were under Jordanian rule. They, plus earlier Arab refugees from Israel, ultimately made the Palestinians the majority of Jordan's population. In contrast to every other Arab country, the Jordanian government immediately offered the Palestinians full citizenship...
Hussein was long suspect in the eyes of fellow Arabs for his openness to the West. He was denounced in the Arab world as a Western stooge in 1972 when he suggested a plan for a West Bank-Jordanian federation similar to the one that President Reagan proposed two weeks ago. But the King's standing among Arabs has improved dramatically in recent years. He won points by resisting strong U.S. pressure to bring him into the Camp David process, when he saw that it would not guarantee a return of East Jerusalem and the West Bank to Arab...
...Clearly, Jordanian participation in Palestinian autonomy negotiations would be a key to their success. The foreign ministry in Amman issued a mild statement that Reagan's initiative "contains a number of positive elements that deserve to be studied," but King Hussein said nothing. Hussein would like to regain authority over the West Bank, but he accepted a 1974 decision by an Arab summit in Rabat that only the P.L.O. could speak for the Palestinians; his country, which has a Palestinian majority, is more vulnerable to P.L.O. pressure than any other in the Arab world. Hussein dares not venture...