Summary
The King of Jordan who, in a major address to the nation on 31 July 1988, announced Jordan’s decision to sever its legal and administrative links with the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a step the study calls a fundamentally new element in the Middle East situation (Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: Part IV (1984-1988), lines 533-540; note 74/).
Details
- King Hussein is quoted: “It has also become obvious that there is a general conviction that maintaining the legal and administrative relationship with the West Bank – and the consequential special Jordanian treatment of the brother Palestinians living under occupation through Jordanian institutions in the occupied territories – goes against this orientation.” (lines 535-538).
- He made clear Jordan would continue to support the Palestinian people’s steadfastness and its uprising until the Palestinians achieve their national objectives, and later dissolved the lower house of the Jordanian Parliament, which included representatives of West Bank Palestinians; the Palestine Liberation Organization welcomed the moves and expressed readiness to assume full responsibility for the administration of the occupied Palestinian territory (lines 539-540).
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Palestine Liberation Organization, State of Palestine, First Intifada