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THERE WAS A LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

NOW THERE IS A

HUSSEIN OF AMERICA

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MER - Washington - 9/17/97:

     Those who remember history are aware that the Hashemite Throne was created by the British. Before the present King's great grandfather was defeated and exiled by the Saudis there was of course the famous British-agent "Lawrence of Arabia". Today, a few generations later we now essentially have "Hussein of America".

     In the 40s the Hashemites secretly collaborated with the Zionist movement across the Jordan with the aim of dividing historic Palestine between them. With considerable British and American help it worked. Throughout the next decades the Hashemites were well-funded by the CIA, a cozy relationship whose political, financial and intelligence tentacles now pervade the area.

     Even so, King Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan sometimes says the most amazing things...and in public! Of late he has apologized for the Six-Day War, literally (as well as symbolically) bowed down to Israelis (but never to his own people), and during the past year held repeated meetings with that old ethnic-cleanser and war criminal from Sabra and Shatilla, Ariel Sharon.

     "There is something fresh in the air. There is something new in the air. Someone who speaks the truth, not diplomatically, but accurately."

     Believe it or not, this is how King Hussein publicly greeted Madeleine Albright on her first visit to Jordan as the American Secretary of State last Sunday. Maybe all those semi-secret meetings the King and royal courtiers have been holding with Bibi and Sharon in the past few years have been warping his world view even more profoundly than had been previously thought!

     Whatever, the Hashemites are pretty much at this point in history the lackies of the Americans - sad but true, another of the usually unwritten "Mid-East Realities" of our time. At the moment, the King is dutifully busy doing whatever he can to drag other Arabs to the U.S.- sponsored Qatar "economic summit" in November -- apparently he wants to introduce all the other "client regimes" to Ariel (yes, Sharon himself will be a leader of the Israeli delegation) too!    (c) MER

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