European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes August 1985 a photo Yasser Arafat increasingly frequent visits to Amman Here with King and the Kings Prince Mohammed Are causing israeli israeli fears of palestinian by Gerald Nadler United press International Israel is being forced to think the both about the Palestine liberation organization and the United it fought an unpopular War in Lebanon to rout the Plo and expel Yasser Arafat from now the unthinkable which could set it and its american Patron on a diplomatic collision course recognition of the Plo and possibly even a palestinian min state won through Israel and the United states already have had harsh israels Nightmare began in february when Egypt and Jordan conceived of a peace process in which a team of jordanians and palestinians would meet first with negotiators and then with Israel opposed the suggested preliminary warning that Arafat would put Plo members in the Israel rejects any dialogue with the saying it has never renounced terrorist israeli fears heightened As Arafat became a More frequent visitor to Amman and started working with King Hussein on a list of palestinians to join the jordanians at talks with the United last week in King Hassan ii of Morocco chaired an Arab league emergency meeting which he called to discuss issues dividing the arabs and the palestinian question in All its it was boycotted by South Yemen and less than half the 21 Arab league Heads of state were i want to Point out where the danger defense minister Yitzhak Rabin Jordan and Arafat Plo Are determined to go hand in hand at this their immediate goal to obtain legitimization of the Washington promised Israel in 1975 it would not talk with the Plo until it renounced recognized israels right to exist and accepted two key resolutions calling for secure Borders for the jewish says if Murphy meets separately with a jordanian palestinian the Plo would gain the imprimatur of approval in return for Arafat remark that he accepts resolutions 242 and in my View despite All the american we must must make ourselves heard and try to at least warn against having the Plo legitimized by the United Rabin we Are promised that it wont they the americans also have a commitment which they must in an incipient War of Israel immediately a possible min state rejected the first list Hussein sent to angering the United it will be our the state department stressing it would not give Israel a Israel is via for the palestinians to present new potential less obviously identified with the plos military Washington also has sought an additional Hussein has refused to provide the controversy obscures what is a comprehensive attempt to Deal with one of the most tangled issues of the conflict determining who will control the West Bank and its palestinian population of after any eventual settlement with the West Bank was designated to be part of a palestinian state by the partition Resolution of which divided British mandate Palestine into jewish and Arab palestinian the palestinian arabs and five surrounding states went to War rather than accept the in the Jordan conquered the West some palestinians became and Many settled in Camps in the West in Israel won the area from Jordan and the West Bank including palestinian came under israeli searching for a in 1967 the Security Council adopted the now famed Resolution for the return of territory by Israel and the acceptance of the right of All states in the area to live in secure the Resolution also said the refugee problem should be solved its sole allusion to the although Hussein family ruled the West Bank for 19 Many palestinians were anxious to win self Rule without and the Arab league at the 1974 Rabat Summit stripped him of his right to negotiate to get the area it the Plo As the sole representative of the palestinian people and the Only authorized but Israel refuses to talk with the Plo because of its terror and insists it will negotiate Only with Hussein and non Plo hence the conceived by Jordan and of a jordanian palestinian delegation to break the gordian prime minister Shimon Peres would like to make a territorial Compromise of returning land for but Only with foreign minister Yitzhak favors palestinian autonomy As a with Overall control in israels he says Israel does not need to give Jordan any since Jordan would Benefit from a peace treaty As much As the jewish both reject what most israelis dread an Independent palestinian state ruled by the thus the israeli concern that a separate meeting with a jordanian palestinian delegation will encourage demands for such a up photo John Whitehead newly appointed Deputy Secretary of visiting King Hussein last