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...between Israel and Egypt on Palestinian autonomy if Reagan's plan is to have any chance of success. That, said Hussein, Jordan cannot yet do because the Fez summit gave him no mandate to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians. Indeed, it reaffirmed a declaration of the 1974 Rabat summit that the P.L.O. is the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...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 to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians without backing from other Arab states and some assurance that...
...Black September",; as the attacks by the Jordanians on the P.L.O. have come to be known, are played down by the Jordanian government in Amman. For the time being at least, King Hussein has made his peace with the P.L.O. At a summit meeting of Arab leaders in Rabat, Morocco, in 1974, the King agreed that the P.L.O., not Jordan, would represent the interests of the 720,000 residents of the West Bank, the Jordanian territory that was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Moreover, Hussein had to accept about 2,000 P.L.O. guerrillas in order...
...Arabs tacitly accepted Israel's existence, he argued, what incentive was there for Israel to return captured Arab lands or grant Palestinian self-determination? The Saudis' rebuttal was that a unified Arab position might have far-reaching effects on global public opinion, as it did in Rabat in 1974 when the leaders recognized the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians...
...essence, the Fahd plan does not differ basically from the general position that the moderate Arab states have maintained since the Rabat summit in 1974. The eight-point proposal contains some elements that clearly are acceptable to all sides, some that appear negotiable and others that now seem to defy all efforts at compromise. The points and the problems they pose...