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Palestinian-Israeli dispute, threatening to blow up hundreds of innocent lives
unless other nations acceded to Arafat's demands against Israel.
I am staying at the Dorchester Hotel in London. I was here in March. A
few
days after I left, a PLO terrorist shot an Israeli official outside the front
entrance of
this hotel. That provoked the present assault of Israeli forces to drive
Arafat's PLO
army out of West Beirut. As I write this morning the Israeli siege in Beirut is
still
going on.
But even if they succeed in driving Arafat and his army out and capturing
all Arafat's heavy military equipment from the Soviet Union, there are still
three
other terrorist leaders with their guerrilla-trained bands, each bent on
individual
assassinations, bombings and terrorist activities to keep trouble stirred up.
At the start of Arafat's terrorist activities, King Hussein kicked Arafat
out of
Jordan. That is when Arafat established his base of operations in West Beirut.
The
Arab nation Syria, north of Lebanon, has been friendly to Arafat. The whole Arab
world is divided into at least three Moslem religious sects--so the Arab world
is
divided. All this, with the Israeli state adjoining Jordan, is keeping King
Hussein
very troubled and very busy almost day and night. When I was in Amman to see
him in March, the King was called in the middle of the night to rush to the
airport
and fly to Iraq, where his army, allied with Iraq, was in an offensive against
Iran.
I didn't get to see him on that trip. And even on this trip, when he finally
managed to clear time to see me, he kept waiting in another room in the palace
the chief advisor to President Mubarak of Egypt who had flown to Amman with a
special confidential message from the Egyptian president.
Incidentally, I know many of you seem to have your hearts set on going
very
soon to Petra as "the place of safety" during the soon-coming Great Tribulation.
Well, GET YOUR MINDS OFF PETRA. Brethren, I HAVE NEVER said that Petra
definitely is the place of protection where God will take us. I HOPE IT IS NOT!
One reason it could be the place is that it is a place NOBODY ELSE WOULD
WANT TO GO. It would be the most UNpleasant, UNcomfortable, miserable place
you could go! There is nothing to be desired there. But, just in case, God HAS
miraculously given me very gracious favor in the eyes of King Hussein and also
his brother, the Crown Prince. They are very friendly to me personally. And
through the Ambassador Foundation, I am keeping up a very close assistance and
cooperation with a Jordan school for retarded children, a project carried on by
Princess Sarvath, wife of the Crown Prince--even to the extent of planning to
send some trained Ambassador College personnel to be stationed there to help
train teachers for this school, and otherwise help expand its operations. It is
a very
worthy cause, and the King and the people of Jordan do appreciate what we are
doing to cooperate with them in this.