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HAYDN:
Symphony No. 6
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Thursday, August 18
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Relig ious News Se rvice

Israel
Philharmonic

Yassir Arafat meets with King Hussein in 1983. Is the monarch staging
an ambush for the PLO chief in 1988?

Palestinians will be brought
down to earth by the fateful
consequences awaiting them
if Jordan pulls out of the West
Bank.
In addition to being state-
less and substantially poorer,
the West Bank inhabitants
would be denied access to
their relatives in Jordan and
would be subject to Israeli
military rule (rather than
Jordanian law, which still
generally applies in the West
Bank).
They would, moreover, have
to abandon any hope of a
political process which could
lead to Israel relinquishing
control over at least some of
the territories. It is in-
conceivable that either of
Israel's two major political
blocs would contemplate ne-
gotiating with the PLO.

All this, according to Mid-
dle East observers, will serve
to bring the Palestinians to

the conclusion that Jordan is,
indeed, an indispensable ele-
ment in their future destiny.
At that point, Hussein will
be back in the driving seat.
Neither the PLO leader nor
his ardent followers will be
any more enchanted with the
Jordanian monarch, but they
will find that, however
distasteful, they are com-
pelled to bend the knee and
implore him to return to his
former level of involvement in
their affairs.
The Jordanian monarch
now appears to be deeply
engaged in the Middle East
equivalent of a political street
fight; a high-powered, high-
stakes encounter at which he
is no novice.
King Hussein has not, after
all, successfully kept the
uncertain Hashemite crown
on his head for over 35 years
by fostering the timid,
deferential streak , in his
nature.

Hussein's Ploy Throws
U.S., Israel A Curve

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FRIDAY AUGUST 5, 1988

The most immediate effect
of King Hussein's decision to
disengage from the West
Bank will be felt by the
Israeli Labor Party's election
campaign managers.
With the elections just
three months away, the battle
lines have been clearly drawn
between the Labor Party of
Shimon Peres and the Likud
Party of Yitzhak Shamir.
The major debate will un-
doubtedly center on "peace"
versus "security," and King
Hussein may, at a stroke,
have neutered the Labor Par-
ty's peace platform.
Over the past 14 months —
since the "London Agree-
ment" between Peres and
Hussein over the formula for
negotiations — the Labor Par-
ty leader has invested enor-
mous quantities of time and
energy in persuading Israelis
that the king represents
Israel's only hope for peace.

Shimon Peres: Unable to deliver?

That claim has now, at a
most critical moment, been
cruelly undermined.
Whether or not Hussein is,
in fact, still a partner for
negotiations over the ter-