National Palestine Grou.p Prefers Israel Over King Hussein

By AMOS BEN-VERED
Chief of 3TA Middle East Bureau
JERUSALEM — An original
booklet of 87 pages has been cir-
culating- on the West Bank and
Israel recently, condemned by
Jordan and arousing some faint
echo among Israel's Arabs. It ad-
vocates the establishment of a
Palestinian entity on the West
Bank alone, protected by the
Unite _ d Nations and guaranteed by
the big powers, Israel and the
Arab states. The alternatives, it
is argued, are the perpetuation of
Israel's rule, or a - return to Has-
hemite domination which is de-
scribed as "murderous.'
Its aut.hor it Mohammed Abu
Shilbaye; a teacher in a secondary
school andcolumnist hit the East
Jernsaled Aiab-owned daily Al
- ICuds. Born. near L,ydda, the author
fled-in 1948 and roamed the Arab
countries, studying - id pains Uni-
venily, jobdng the "Beath party,
returning to Jordan-and spending
five years in prison for activities
against the regime. He is now in
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Since 1967, he has been a mem-
ber of various small groups of
political activists which grow and
wither like mushrooms. The new
defunct group with which he has
been identified for the majority of
this period is called the National
Palestine Alignment. It was a
loosely knit gathering of intellec-
tuals, more in the nature of a
debating society than a political
Party.
On the West Bank, where poli-
tics are as patriarchal as else-
where in the Middle East, it
carried almost no influence. The
real power is vested in the sheikhs
and in the old and rich families,
who may have views of their own,
but usually cooperate with the
authority exercising actual Power-
In Israel, on the other hand, it
has aroused , ctniousity and has
been tolerated as a legitimate ex-
pression of views. There is no
censorship on views, unless, they
are accompanied by incitement to
violence against ihe authorities.
The National Palestine Align-
ment has been disbanded new
far Num Ihnisi.a year. Rs mem-
bersliip, variously estimated at
between M =mud 24* perseas,
amasiseed at -.1eachers,_joarnalista.
and aosne: Tawyen. Abu SW-
Urea
.Joesidet appear*
in express the ideas generated
daring their amensises, al.
though it Is far front beteg log&
eat in the Waiters erase at the
word or N ews. ampi
, zwalnig a ea*
Iserent pellet* philseephy. It
carried the z-Ze title "There
Wit Ile Ns:
Pittballt eta
ladependead Palesthdan State,"

and its sharply-worded summary
reads: "If there is a choice be-
tween Israeli occupation and a
return to Hussein's regime, we
shall prefer the occupation."
Critical of both the Hashemite
regime and the Palestinian ter-
rdrists, most of the booklet is an
attempt to sketch the history of
Jordan, although the outcome is a
caricature distorted by hatred
rather than a realistic portrait.
The Emir Abdullah, (grandfather
of King Hussein) who fled from
Hedjaz, was given by the British
a piece of desert with 100,000 in-
habitants — this, for example, is
how the history of Jordan -begins
for Abu Shlibaye. Eventually, the
Hashemite regime led not to Arab
unity but to the domination and
oppression of the Palestinians by
the Bedouin from the East. Out-
right- terror as well as economic
favoritism made the desert princes
exchange. their rags for regal at-
tire and their camels for Cadillacs,
while the Palestinian farmers re-
mained poor, he charges.
Mod of the development budget
was spent on the east bank, all
new industries erected there. Poli-
tical assassination, imprisonment
and - indiscriminate slaughter of
Palesdinians had been the rule,
except when Hussein needed them
for some adventure, such as the
war against Israel in 1967, or when
he felt that he had to placate them
because they had become too

are misguided and seek impossible
goals such as the attempt to drive
the Zionists out of the area. A
Palestinian state on the whole
West Bank (including Israel), even
though not defined as Zionist,
would mean, in effect, Zionist
domination over the Arabs both
militarily and economically, be-
cause the Jews of Palestine have
a sense of purpose and a drive
which has made them into an
enormous power even compared to
the combined strength of all the
Arab states. The five years of Is-
raeli rule have shown that the
Israeli army commits less than
one-tenth of the crimes committed
by the Jordanian Legion, and there
has not been a single case of poli-
tical murder.
For the 1967 war, the author
offers his own original explana-
tion: it had been Hussein's idea,
and he had goaded Nasser into
it. At the back of it had been an
American promise that Hussein's
kingdom would not suffer, and
any territories lost to Israel would
be returned to him.

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