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2004-11-07 Arabia

Fahd, Abdullah Hold Talks With Jordanian King

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Posted by Fred 2004-11-07 11:29:30 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's been my belief that at the end of the (coming) post Arafat "unpleasantness," Jordon's King Abdullah II will allow himself to be "drafted" to rescue the Palestinian people from themselves. Reluctantly, *of course*. And so once again the West Bank will be under Jordanian administration.

But first, a lot of the bad guys have to kill each other.

Posted by Dave (not the 1 in Iraq) 2004-11-07 5:41:03 AM|| 2004-11-07 5:41:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, the Jordanians have never had a problem with killing paleos per say. Arafat got lucky and missed the end of a party Arafish threw in Jordan and King Abdallah's father the former King (god rest his soul) finished.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-07 5:49:17 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-07 5:49:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 perhaps they were discussing the transition to Hashemite re-control over Soddy? One can dream.....

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-07 7:25:20 AM|| 2004-11-07 7:25:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Arafat got lucky and missed the end of a party Arafish threw in Jordan and King Abdallah's father the former King (god rest his soul) finished."

Ah, yes. "Black September" (the event, not the terrorist group) King Abdullah's dad really knew how to "party." And Abdullah has always struck me as being "his father's son" if you know what I mean. If there's someone who could give the Palestinians a chance at nationhood, heâs the one. But only as a "white knight," I don't think it'll be viable if it's widely viewed as an outside takeover. Once in though, heâll have the stones to put down the bad guys â just like his dad did 34 years ago.

Posted by Dave (not the 1 in Iraq) 2004-11-07 7:25:25 AM|| 2004-11-07 7:25:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dave

Perhaps you don't remember but the Palestinians tried to assassinate King Hussein and to take control of Jordan, just as they had de facto taken control of Lebanon. King Hussein was undertstably upset and the Jordans has only to look at Lebanon (did you know that the shia tchador was created to mark lebanese shia women as Palestinian allies and not to be raped) to get good reasons to fight.

Posted by JFM 2004-11-07 12:47:05 PM|| 2004-11-07 12:47:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Arafat got Lucky!? NFW, I'll outlive his sorry ass.

Posted by Lucky 2004-11-07 12:59:07 PM|| 2004-11-07 12:59:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 That's the spirit, Lucky. We are thankful for your recovery. We can see it in the posts every day. Rantburg is good therapy, not kidding here. Glad to have you back!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-07 1:26:00 PM|| 2004-11-07 1:26:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "the Palestinians tried to assassinate King Hussein and to take control of Jordan, just as they had de facto taken control of Lebanon"

Good point. (Actually, I do remember.) After the Palestinianâs assassination and coup attempt, the good King was justifiably pissed and forced Arafat and his terrorists OUT of Jordan. There's been bad blood ever since. Now, after Arafat was forced OUT of Jordan, he THEN had to go somewhere. That somewhere was Lebanon. Arafat was far more successful there than he was in Jordan, in fact Lebanon is STILL screwed up, due in part to Arafat's 1970's destabilization efforts. (Whatever else Lebanon is, it is an object lesson of what happens with a tepid response to terrorist provocation)

Posted by Dave (not the 1 in Iraq) 2004-11-07 1:33:03 PM|| 2004-11-07 1:33:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 He didn't just force Arafish out they killed a shed load of paleos and would have killed Arafish too if he hadn't run to Lebanon. Jordan would love to have as much of the west bank back as they could get if it came without the paleos.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-07 1:40:43 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-07 1:40:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, it looks like we've got a *lot* to thank the Paleos for haven't we?

Hurry up and die Arafish...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-11-07 1:41:58 PM|| 2004-11-07 1:41:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Thx AP. RB is my hangout.

Posted by Lucky 2004-11-07 1:46:00 PM|| 2004-11-07 1:46:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Lucky at least you can sit some at the computer now. Afer my cancer surgery I couldn't set in my chair and I had a foley for about 3 weeks.(no extra charge to the infection) It was like 4 weeks before I could get back online for just a short periods. But I am alive and cancer free now so I am happy as hell to be here and I wasn't using that part much anyway.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-07 1:52:30 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-07 1:52:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I remember a recurring scenario well before Lebanese Civil War: Palestinians perpetrate a terrorrist act from Lebanon, Israel retaliates against Paleos and Lebanon, the Lebanese Army then try to curb Palestinian attacks against Israel (to avoid being hit again) but is defeated. I don't remember if this started before or after Black September. However I doubt very much that Palestinian's contempt towards the laws of the hosting state, thuggish behaviour or their attittude towards local women was something who started in 1970.

Posted by JFM 2004-11-07 2:42:43 PM|| 2004-11-07 2:42:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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