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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mlddle East Peace
What spurs me to write
was the speech in the January
issue by Adnan Abu Odeh,
Minister to the Royal Court
of the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan, titled "Wbat We
Need Most is Peace."
1
studicd the Mideast since
even bcfore my liaison days
with Naval l ntelligence in the
Great War.
1
was concerned
with those hotspots at a time
when the name of that
country was T ransjordan, and
Syria and Lebanon were very
French, while in the Palestine
mandate the Arabs were
second class and the J ews
third class to a British first.
Let me in the spirit of
comradely friendship point
out truths relevant to Jordan.
First , that country is really
East Palestine, having been
carved out of the original
Palestinian mandate which
England had charge of by the
League of Nations agreement
after the First World War;
let's not forget this fact. ...
Prior to the first division of
Palestine, and the British
mandate, Palesline and much
of the Middle Easl was under
the Ottoman Empire; there
was no Jordan; there was no
Saudi Arabia, no independent
Syria or Lebanon, et al.
No one can blame King
Hussein for not wanting to
meet the same fate as bis
grandfather, King Abdullab,
or the fate of Anwar Sadal,
or lhat of Abdel Hamid
Mansour Kishta, mayor of
the city of Rafah, who was
shot as he walked borne from
evening prayer at a local
mosque in September, 1984;
or Aziz Shehadeh, a West
Bank lawyer who advocated
an independent Palestinian
state as part of a peace
agreement with Israel.
The terrorist front,
intermingled with the P.L.O.,
will see to that. Living only
June
1986
for the eradication of the
State of Israel, they see an
independent Palestinian state
as a stepping-stone to tbe
destruction of the Jewish
state; they do not include any
peace agreement with Israel
in their plans, and any
Palestinian, Egyptian,
Jordanian, or Syrian, who
adopts a co-operative stance
for peace wit h Israel will
continue lo end up six feet
down.
Paul Small
Adjuta nt, American Legion
Philadelphia, Pe.onsylvania
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