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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24015)	4/9/2002 8:55:23 AM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

When Nasser and Hussein talked on the phone, the Jordanian had no airplane left. To the opening of hostilities, no Arab army had attacked Israel. Nasser had closed the Aquaba gulf to Israeli boats a couple of weeks before, and Ebban declared that a casus belli, followed soon by Dayan saying "its too early or two late to start a war". So the Arab armies from Morocco to Irak got ready to attack Israel, but nothing happens besides war songs, Oum Khaltoum, the Arab nightingale, blowing her mouth off on Arab national radios with her n° 1 hit : " slice, slice slice, the throats of all the Jews." The Jordanian border was calm. King Hussein flew to Egypt and back, piloting his private jet, and engaging in the usual Arab Rethorics, but not daring a move. And Israel air force destroyed all his warplanes together with the Egyptians and Syrians ones, and in those same opening minutes. Then, the Israeli ground troops went in. So that is an Israeli attack by all means. Even a sneak one. And a perfect one. Just like your people will do in Irak and around, ASAP. But king Hussein would have loved to stay out of it. It is just that his planes were considered too much of a threat, like his armies, trained by the British.