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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1683)	6/7/2001 11:43:04 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

K(isl)ing Hussein was on the CIA's payroll after all: And so was Nasser... so what's your point? Obviously being on the CIA's "dole" doesn't prevent these people from undertaking actions that are not in the interests of the US. And any nation that accepts US foreign aid money can be considered to be on the "dole".

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1683)	6/7/2001 11:43:37 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Gustave, you are distorting a little the history, their are existing documents that Israel asked Hussein a number of times to stay out of the conflict, and it took two days after the opening of the Egyptian front before the West bank front opened (The Israeli did not have enough resources to fight on all three fronts in an offensive manner). You are so at ease blaming Israel for these events, you forget that it was Egypt, not Israel, that demanded the removal of the UN forces from the buffer zone in Sinai, once again in violation of the 1956 armistice, thus effectively declaring the armistice agreement null and void and declaring war against Israel, that precipitated their demise. Hussein, if he wanted, could have stayed out. Tell me, what would be the results of that conflict if Israel did not manage to end victorious? Would the Arabs return back the west of Jerusalem if they captured it? They did not return or give even access to Mount Scopius and the Jewish quarters in the old city when they were victorious (and in 1948, under Glubb, the Jordan Legion was indeed victorious and captured not only the Hebrew University Campus and the Haddasa hospital, but also Goush Etzion and the Jewish quarters in Hevron, as well as forcing the building of a completely new road to Jerusalem when the Israeli failed to take a major fortress (donated by the Brits to Jordan, mind you) controlling the old road to Jerusalem. Zeev