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KING HUSSEIN'S SECRET TREACHERY REVEALED
MER - 15 April:
With the new situation in today's Middle East various intrigues and
once top secret information is leaking out. Consider the following
information about King Hussein of Jordan, about whom much more is likely to leak out in
the immediate future:
1) In October 1973 King Hussein sent Jordanian tanks to fight with
Syria against Israel during the "Yom Kippur War". But just 12 days
before the war broke out -- completely unknown in Damascus and Cairo -- King Hussein
secretly met with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir near Tel Aviv to warn her of a
possible upcoming attack from Egypt and Syria. The over-confident Israelis didn't fully
believe the King at the time, thinking that Hussein was maybe overdoing it after the
failed coordination back in 1967 when the Israelis took Jerusalem and the West Bank from
the Hashemite Kingdom.
2) This was not the first nor the last of Hussein's secret meetings
with Israeli leaders to essentially plot against the Palestinians
and the neighboring Arab states. His overall goal which he pursued
vigorously after 1967 was to make sure he could count on the Israelis, and their American
friends, to be the guarantors of his Hashemite regime in Amman. Indeed, over the years the
Israelis helped prevent a number of assassination attempts against Hussein and worked very
closely with the Jordanian regime against the Palestinians.
The King also met secretly with Golda Meir earlier that same year,
1973, in May, primarily to discuss how to keep the Palestinians
controlled, both in Jordan and in the now Israeli-occupied territories.
The King was still manuevering at the time to try to make a deal with
the Israelis that might lead to some form of joint condominum rule
over the Palestinians. At that time, as he apparently was to do a
number of times, Hussein flew secretly from Amman to an airstrip north of Jerusalem, and
then the Israelis took him in an Israeli army
helicopter to Tel Aviv.
3) These secret meetings were a major ongoing feature of a very close working relationship
that has existed for a long time between the Israelis and the Hashemites, and thus between
Mossad and the Jordanian Muhabarat. In gratitude for this regime-saving relationship, in
February three years ago Hussein assembled as his official guests at one of his palaces in
Amman all the living leaders of Mossad and their wives for two days of mutual
congratulations, reminiscing, and future planning. That gathering in 1995 was organized
for the Hashemite King by then-deputy Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy, who was recently named
the new chief of the Israeli intelligence agency.
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