KING HUSSEIN VISITS ARAFAT IN WEST BANK.Byline: Joel Greenberg The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times King Hussein Noun 1. King Hussein - king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999) ibn Talal Hussein, Husain, Husayn, Hussein of Jordan returned to the West Bank on Tuesday for the first time since he lost it to Israel in the 1967 war, promising the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, full support in peace talks and in his efforts to establish an independent state. The king came to the Palestinian self-rule zone of Jericho as a guest of Arafat and was greeted with full military honors. After decades of rivalry for influence in the West Bank, the visit was an emphatic recognition by Hussein of Arafat's supremacy there. But it was also a demonstration of solidarity - an unmistakable signal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel that further delays in carrying out self-rule agreements with the Palestinians would damage Israel's relations with Jordan. After meeting with Arafat on Monday in Amman, the king, who is a pilot, flew him to Jericho on Tuesday morning in a Jordanian Air Force helicopter. Wearing a red-checked Arab headdress headdress, head covering or decoration, protective or ceremonial, which has been an important part of costume since ancient times. Its style is governed in general by climate, available materials, religion or superstition, and the dictates of fashion. , Hussein stood beside Arafat on a reviewing stand as a Palestinian police band played the Jordanian and Palestinian anthems. The two leaders inspected an honor guard, greeted a long receiving line of Palestinian officials and zoomed off to Arafat's headquarters, passing crowds of flag-waving schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school . ``I'm happy to have the opportunity to be beside you and with you on the land of Palestine,'' the king told Arafat at a news conference. The reference to Palestine signaled the closing of a circle in history. It was in Jericho that a conference of West Bank representatives called on Hussein's grandfather, King Abdullah King Abdullah can refer to:
Jordan maintained administrative links to the West Bank even after Israel gained control of the territory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. But in 1988, after the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, Hussein severed the links, stopping payment of salaries to civil servants. He has since renounced his claims to the area and supported Palestinian demands for statehood state·hood n. The status of being a state, especially of the United States, rather than being a territory or dependency. . But the king has preserved his monarchy's role in maintaining Muslim shrines in Jerusalem, competing for influence there with Arafat's Palestinian Authority Palestinian Authority (PA) or Palestinian National Authority, interim self-government body responsible for areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip under Palestinian control. . At least half of Jordan's population is Palestinian. |
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