Farewell To A King

CHILD OF ABRAHAM

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Ruhama Cohen holds
her newborn daughter at
Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital
on Sunday, after naming the
child Nzrden, Hebrew for
Jordan, in honor of King
Hussein. Ruhama and
Shimon Cohens daughter
Keren was among seven
school children shot to
death while on a class trip
to Nahariya, a small stn:p
of land on the Jordan River
by a crazed Jordanian soldier
in 1997. The King visited
the Cohens and knelt to
ask their forgiveness. "We
will never forget the King
who shared our grief"
Ruhama Cohen said.

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who viewed their operations against
Israel as a threat to Jordan.
After Hussein came under machine-
gun fire on the streets of Amman -
and after the_PLO staged the destruc-
tion of several hijacked airplanes at the
capital's airport - the king had
enough and declared war on the PLO.
Fighting erupted in and around
Amman in what later became known
as Black September.
The wider Arab world, which had
long distrusted Hussein as a Western
puppet, sided with the PLO. Syria sent
tanks into Jordan - and the king was
powerless to stop their steady advance.
After seeking American interven-
tion - he could not possibly have
sought Israeli help directly - on
Sept. 16, four Israeli Phantom jets
flew low over the Syrian tanks.
Without a shot being fired, the tanks
got the message, turned north and
headed back for Damascus.
For years on end, Hussein had to
seek peace with Israel from the shad-
ows. Advocates of total Arab unity
suspected his pro-Western proclivities
and, beginning in the 1950s, he was
the target of a succession of assassina-
tion and coup attempts.
He had to wait - until after
Egypt, then the Palestinians, signed
peace treaties with the Jewish state.
On Sept. 14, 1993, Hussein finally
had his chance: Only one day after
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
Arafat shared their historic handshake
on the White House lawn, Israel and
Jordan signed a "Common Agenda
in Washington.
That document served as a blueprint
for the peace treaty the two nations
signed a year later, on Oct. 26, 1994.
It was then, in a signing ceremony
with Rabin and President Clinton on

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the Israeli-Jordanian border, that
Hussein could state, for all the world
to hear, what he had previously pur-
sued behind the scenes.
"This great valley in which we
stand will become the valley of
peace," he said. This is peace with
dignity. This is peace with commit-
ment. This is our gift to our peoples
and the generations to come."
Hussein lived up to those words,
infusing warmth and humanity into
his country's peace with Israel.
When Rabin's funeral was held on
Nov. 6, 1995, Hussein moved the
audience with his eulogy for the man
he described as a "brother, a colleague
and a friend."
"We belong to the camp of peace,"
he said. "We believe that our one God
wishes us ro live in peace, and we
wish His peace upon us. For these are
His teachings to all the followers of
the three great monotheistic religions,
the children of Abraham."
His dedication to peace became
evident to all Israelis in March 1997,
when Hussein paid condolence calls
to the families of Israeli schoolchild-
ren who were killed by a deranged
Jordanian soldier while they were
making a field trip to a site on the
Israeli-Jordanian border.
And if Hussein won the hearts of
Israelis at that time, he won over much
of the rest of the world when, clearly
showing the effects of chemotherapy,
he attended the White House signing
of the Wye agreement last October.
Several years ago, when Hussein
had overcome prostate cancer, a tele-
vision interviewer asked him whether
he was afraid of death.
"Life is a journey," he replied with
regal simplicity "It has a beginning and
an end. Why should I be afraid?" L i