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Read that revelation from the Kingdom of Jordan archives. So, Jordan as a Palestinian state wasn’t such a far fetched concept, eh?

By Peter Day The Daily Telegraph, 27/09/2007

King Hussein of Jordan was prepared to build Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, his deputy prime minister, according to newly released secret documents.

The proposal was made through an intermediary in 1974 as the king faced the prospect of a Palestinian government in exile attempting to divide his country.

The Jordanian West Bank territories – where most Palestinian refugees lived – were occupied by Israel as a aftereffect of the Yom Kippur war in

Mr Arafat, as leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, was
agitating for their return to structure an independent state. He was backed by Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

King Hussein feared the break-up of his kingdom, with territory on both sides of the Jordan river being ceded to the Palestinians, and sought to woo Arafat in 1974, according to files released yesterday at the National Archives.

However, the proposal appears to have led nowhere and later that year the king conceded the prospect of a separate Palestinian state.

Jordanian Deputy PM, King Hussein of Jordan, News, Yasser Araft

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