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Following the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian
peace treaty and the 1993 Israeli-
Palestinian accord, the king felt free to
go further. The Israeli-Jordanian treaty
consolidated the security cooperation;
helped Jordan restore diplomatic cred-
ERIC SILVER
it with the West after it gave passive
Israel Correspondent
support to Saddam Hussein in the
1991 Gulf War; and revived the econ-
he operation failed, but is
omy, which was undermined by a
the patient still alive?
postwar influx of Palestinians expelled
Three years after
from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Jordan's King Hussein
Unlike the Egyptian treaty, it was
signed a peace treaty with Israel's
meant to usher in a "warm" peace
Yitzhak Rabin, the anniversary prog-
based on mutual trust. Jordan was
nostication among experts on both
buying into what seemed to be a new
sides of the border is "critical," but
start for the entire region, and doing
"not fatal." Not yet, anyway.
so with fewer reservations than other
"The balance among the Jordanian
Arab regimes.
public has tipped in the last three
Over the past year and a half, how-
years from low-keyed skepticism, a
ever, the reconciliation has gone cool.
willingness to give the peace treaty a
"The majority of Jordanians were will-
chance, to a situation where people are
ing to go along if they could see a
bitter and disappointed," says Rami
peace dividend," says Professor Asher
Khouri, a Jordanian political commen-
Susser, a Tel Aviv University specialist
tator. "But there is still a desire to
in Jordanian affairs. "They expected
make it work."
their economy to benefit dramatically.
The Hashemite regime had been
They expected to see advances in
cooperating discreetly with successive
Israel's relations with the Palestinians
Israeli governments on their common
and the Syrians. But the economic
security interests since the early 1960s.
dividends have not so far been very
Conservative Jordan, like Israel, felt
impressive."
vulnerable in an increasingly radical
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Likud
Middle East. Israel offered an insur-
prime minister elected in May 1996,
ance policy.
has been a great disappointment to
In September 1970, for instance,
the king and his brother, Crown
the Jordanian army drove the Palestine
Prince Hassan. The Hashemite sur-
Liberation Organization out of the
vivors liked the idea that he would not
kingdom; Israel deployed its tanks to
rush his fences with either the
deter Syria from intervening. And
Palestinians or the Syrians, which
when Israel was attacked from
might have harmed Jordan.
the north and south by Syria
Despite his hardline ideolo-
Jordan's King
and Egypt three years later, an
Hussein shakes gy, he promised to surprise
Israeli official was asked who
hands with Ariel them.
was protecting the eastern
What did surprise them
Sharon du ring a
front. "King Hussein," he
summer m eeting was how Netanyahu disrupt-
replied, "as usual."
in Agab a.
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