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Hussein, who grudgingly surrendered his right to act on behalf of West Bank Palestinians under pressure from Arab leaders at last month's Rabat summit, had no comment on the speech. Expectations are that he will dissolve Parliament this week, form a new Cabinet and proceed with his announced plans for a "Jordanization" of his kingdom that would exclude Palestinians from power unless they opt for Jordanian nationality. An anti-Palestinian movement has sprung up among East Bank Jordanians. They are urging the King to approve a law that would in effect make Palestinians who fled to the East...
Cooling Off. Arab diplomats think that the King is finished on the West Bank and the Israeli scenario is unrealistic at best. Many think that Israel missed a golden opportunity in not negotiating with Hussein before Arafat was endorsed as spokesman for the Palestinians at the Rabat summit. Certainly Hussein feels that way now. "I think Israel was terribly slow in terms of moving toward peace," he said recently. As for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whose plan for a gradual settlement is in clear danger, he believes that two things are needed now: a "cooling off" period...
ISRAEL IS IN THE DEPTHS of the gravest crisis in its twenty-six year history as an independent state. The Palestine Liberation Organization has been granted official recognition by both Arab governments at the Rabat summit and by the General Assembly of the United Nations, where Yasser Arafat's call for Israel's dismantlement was greeted with a standing ovation. Terrorist incursions into Israel have taken the lives of 57 people so far this year, and despite stringent security measures and brutal retaliatory raids into Lebanon, the attacks have not been thwarted...
Negotiating or nor negotiating with the P.L.O. is not the real issue. The basic problem, underlying everything, is that the Arabs in general have refused to accept the proposition of a Jewish state in the Middle East. The Rabat decision to call the P.L.O. the legitimate Palestinian representatives was just another slap in the face...
Israeli intransigence about negotiating with Palestinian terrorists was shaken two weeks ago by a White House miscue: President Ford appeared to hint that as a result of the Rabat summit Israel might have to deal with King Hussein and the P.L.O. Arriving in Jerusalem last week, Kissinger had to reassure Rabin at the outset of their talks that the U.S. still considered it possible to discuss the future of the West Bank with Hussein. The Secretary also told the Israelis that in his view the Arabs, despite the summit, had left themselves an encouraging amount of room for continued negotiations...