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Article: Hussein's acid truths. (King Hussein of Jordan)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 20, 1984
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THE FIRST impulse, on reading the words of King Hussein, was in this case to hit him hard. People don't get away with speaking thataway to the U.S.A., and while we're at it, what about Hussein's own record? What did he ever do for the West Bank Palestinians back when he, so to speak, owned them?
Perhaps it was not only the thought they conveyed, but the remarkable simplicity of the language, in an age of diplomatic euphuism, that carries Hussein's words into the bowels of the mind. Because what he charges is very difficult to answer.
"We see things this way: Israel is on our land. It is there by virtue of American military assistance and economic aid ...