ABSTRACT
In a televized speech, King Hussein of Jordan declared that he was renouncing Jordan’s claim to the West Bank which had been annexed in 1950 but had come under Israeli occupation in 1967.
. . . The relationship of the West Bank with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in light of the PLO’s call for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, can be confined to two considerations. First, the principled consideration pertaining to the issue of Arab unity as a pan-Arab aim, to which the hearts of the Arab peoples aspire and which they want to achieve. Second, the political consideration pertaining to the extent of the Palestinian struggle’s gain from the continuation of the legal relationship of the Kingdom’s two banks. Our answer to the question now stems from these two considerations and the background of the clear-cut and firm Jordanian position toward the Palestine question, as we have shown.
