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…intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon. Arafat was becoming a significant figure on the Arab and world political stage, and an increasingly unc...

… Abrogation of the Cairo Agreement by the Lebanese Parliament (21 May 1987) 980 The Shultz Plan (4 March 1988) 981 King Hussein’s Address on Jordanian Disengagement from the West Bank (31 July 1988) 983 Agreements between Egypt and Israel on Taba (26 February 1989) 988 Ta’if Agre...

When we got to Hussein’s country home, we were greeted by an impressively self-assured man in his late 20s who, like Hussein, had studied at Britain’s military academy in Sandhurst and then gone on to Oxford. It was Abdullah, the king’s son and later his successor, and he explain...

…Israel, needed to be: whether on Entebbe, or the prospect, with all its risks, of launching an operation to kill Saddam Hussein. Humane, too: ready to negotiate with terrorists to save the lives of those they were planning to kill, unless he was confident our soldiers could save...

…r, you can be in touch with reality by psychological tests but quite out of touch with reality politically. With Saddam Hussein, this was particularly true—where to provide criticism of him was either to lose your job or lose your life. Everyone was constantly praising him and hi...

Did the British promise the Arabs independence in Palestine? In July 1915, Hussein ibn ‘Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, sent a letter to Sir Henry MacMahon, the High Commissioner for Egypt, informing him of the terms for Arab participation in the war against the Turks. The letters be...

…bya's Gaddafi so rich he could spoon money into the London School of HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028652 Economics. They made Saddam Hussein one of the 10 wealthiest people in the world. Besides, sanctions create sanctions-busting which, like drugs, is a global criminal industry born entirely...

Iraq’s Sadam Hussein sent in tens of thousands of his troops and

after the sons of Saddam Hussein—wondered if there couldn’t somehow

King Hussein’s army had defeated the insurgency of Fatah and a

…ed Palestinians, they would go back to Jordan where they would resume — and, this time, win — their civil war with King Hussein. The result, with Hussein deposed, 195 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011666

…endence in Palestine? HOUSE OVERSIGHT 032023 Did the British promise the Arabs independence in Palestine? In July 1915, Hussein ibn 'Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, sent a letter to Sir Henry MacMahon, the High Commissioner for Egypt, informing him of the terms for Arab participation i...

…aqi forces along its border, Kuwait decided not to mobilize its military out of fear that the move would provoke Saddam Hussein. The incentives for Gulf states to make similar strategic calculations in the future will be greater when Iran has an inventory of nuclear weapons to ma...

Economics. They made Saddam Hussein one of the 10 wealthiest people in the world. Besides, sanctions create sanctions-busting which, like drugs, is a global criminal industry born entirely of the idiocy of western diplomacy. A year ago the Foreign Office defended yet another rou...

Economics. They made Saddam Hussein one of the 10 wealthiest people in the world. Besides, sanctions create sanctions-busting which, like drugs, is a global criminal industry born entirely of the idiocy of western diplomacy. A year ago the Foreign Office defended yet another rou...