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To: Ilaine who wrote (23896)	4/8/2002 5:23:54 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You seem to be advocating that Jordan take the Palestinians Not exactly CB.. What I was pointing out was the irony with regard to how Israeli "occupation" is somehow illegal, despite the fact that they were attacked by Jordan in 1967, and the fact that Hassan and other PA mouthpieces conveniently omit the fact that Jordan ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED the UN sanctioned Palestinian partition from 1948 until 1967. And I'm also pointing out that here were these people, turned into Jordanian citizens and governed by Jordanian Royal law (with no right to vote since it was a Monarchy), yet that WAS NOT SUFFICIENT to warrant the term "oppression and occupation". Nope... The Jews?? Now they are occupiers... But the Jordanians? They're our "brothers"... Jordan's Hashemites have FAR MORE to fear from the creation of a Palestinian state, than does Israel. From such a political base of precedent, they could easily subvert the Hashemite regime and call for "reverse unification" of the West Bank and Jordan, to include the fall of the Hashemite Arabs. But as it stands, King Hussein abdicated all responsibility for the situation he played a major role in creating. Jordan continued to assert its claim on the West Bank until 1989 which, had the two nations made peace prior, would have placed the Palestinians back under "illegal occupation" by the Hashemites. See the irony?? Thus, Jordan really shouldn't be able to get off "scot-free" with regard to solving the Palestinian problem. If anything, both Israel and Jordan should be working together to solve it (dividing it between themselves??), or sharing responsibility over how it is formulated and economically developed. Certainly neither side has any interest in permitting it to possess a military. Jordan strikes me as being rather key to the Palestinian solution, if Abdullah has the prescience (and guts) to get involved. Hawk