King Hussein takes risk in shunning West Bank

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: August 8, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Last Sunday the Jordan option, the mirage which has mesmerized American and Israeli policymakers for 20 years, vanished. King Hussein of Jordan announced that he was washing his hands of the West Bank and turning responsibility for running and recovering it to the PLO.

The mirage was that Hussein really would negotiate a West Bank peace with Israel. Ever since 1967, Israelis and Americans have been concocting schemes under which Jordan could reclaim parts or all of the West Bank in return for a final peace. No matter what was devised to please the king, he found a reason to equivocate.

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