LATEST ON PALESTINIAN OPTION

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December 4, 1970

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JLeLd No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 rRANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON /NODIS MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER FROM: Harold 1-1. Saunders?C+L SUBJECT: Latest on Palestinian Option December 4, 1970 ti74144n .57.1.124;74 I have drawn their essence into an analytical memo (Tab A) which you could send to the President for his background.. If you do not wish to do this, please just treat it as written for you. State Dept. review completed ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS APPLY SECRET /NODIS MORI C05097194 Pgs 1-35 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 SECR T N MOR NDU FOR: Tit ObiLT SU alECTI LNFORMATON Z4104 Dseember 4, 1970 TIlL RESIDENT *wary A, Elesiaser M14J*t Settlemeet ? Palestlelase and Hossein 25X1 Siete tbis will be ve manelt Nesseiels =dad wasted yea to bravo diseassisa of tits isowei. reap ha. bad several diecosatoes to Obi problom, a bad a Ions talk with Ifitesain oe kite subjset bolero Masao ea, I Review sesolor Brown /aft Amman, 25X1 St CRS T INODIS No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14: LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14: LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 25X1 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 Inv 111P 0. 25X1 04 It is possible to arae in the ions ran there is logic in the creation. of an Are)) Palestiataa parelleling the Jewish state Ia Israel as the final settlement el Um Pelestlee problem. If this were dons? it could be argued that the state moat like* to be viable would be one leeleding all of Jordan and Gess This would telila that Jordaa La some way would have to came wider Peleettaiee leadership. It may well be that tide will he the eventual outcome of the struggle in Jordan, but in our deliberations so far we have had difficulty in developing policy as the basis of the above arsumant. The chief dilemma is a major uttcertainty about the Palestinian leadership's objective. toward Israel. Nowhere is it said that the proposed Polostleissi eatity would be prepared to make peace with Israel. In this situation, say U.S. move toward the 1'al estinien leadership could be read as hocking away from liusesia - who is prepared to mike peace with Israel end give the Palestinians political autonomy -- in favor of a political grow dedicated so far as we know to changing the Jewish chartist/sr of }smell. Although the problem of coming to terms with a group that may come out on top in Jordan is recognised, it has seemed so tar that the only real U.S. choice is to teatime to work through the established severnment in Jordan. One of the pasts that will be discussed with ilusisia here is bow the U. S. can help him is his programs to bring the 141estbiltins more actively into the negotiating process in ways that will bolster rather than undercut his position. The above analysis will be reflected la year talking pasts. SEClitt TiNEXDIS No Objection to _Declassification in Part 2011/10/14: LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 a r ? _ No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : - a?,,c LOC-HAKI-1293-:i-10-4 niv,,cite eAkvsc rit0 A S 4- a t s' ji3Okij 44" Ve.) CIL SC s 5 t a e ? N I ire (41 artmen 40 414 wi4 70 Y AMMAN . TE WASHDC PRIORITY 2437 .4. - SEC RE R E T SECTION t OF 2 AMMAN 6712 SUBJECT.: PALESTINIANS AND KING REF: STATE. 190308 rr cTT CONTROL: /71 1 16Q OV 13 09Z eicTf 1.4 eq,c;';;7:L.t.,:ric-tiv?.4 P ko,yti Ffurc,o, ( deij 4. 4 IN ACCORDANCE REFTEL HAD *ABOUT AN HOUR YESTERDAYWITH HUSSEIN PRIVATELY, THIS- WAS AN EXPLORATORY TALK. WE WILL MEET AGAIN -IN A FEW DAYS FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION. 2. ON ARAFAT AND OUR MEETING WITH HIS REPS, 1 GAVE KING1 BACKGROUND AS WELL AS SOLID ASSURANCES THAT WE WANTED HIS CONSIDERED VIEWS BEFORE WE'MADE DECISI ION A5 TOWHETHER TO INITIATE THESE LIMITED AND GUARDED CONTACTS.- AFTER SAYING HE SAW NO REAL OBJECTION, HE SAID HE WANTED TO THINY IT THROUGH ND WE WOULD DISCUSS mER. I AGR717.D. (RIGHT NOW S A BIT PIU XAGGERATIONS AND LIES AT HIS VARIOUS PRESS CONFERENCES IN ARAB CAPITALS; HE. ALSO NOTES DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WHAT ARAFAT IS DOING AND SAYING ABROAD AND WHAT BAKR AND OTHER FATAH LEADERS ARE DOING AND SAYING HERE AND WONDERS JUST WHO REPRESENTS WHAT AT THIS MOMEMT.) 3, ON PALESTINIANS WE HAD LONG AND COMPLICATED DISCUSSION HE HIMSELF WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO FIND. A PALESTINIAN QTE ENTITY .UNOTE TO-WHICH HE COULD TURN. HE FINDS NONE. IT IS NOT fA.TAH WHICH MAY BE ABLE TO SWIM IN PALESTINIAN SEA OF JORDANIAN AND LEBANESE REFUGEE CAMPS BUT HAS SHOWN NO SUCH CAPABILITY ON WEST BANK. IT IS NOT WEST BANK BOURGOISIE WHO SEEM PREFER COMBINATION OF PEACE AND STATUS QUO ANTE. IT IS NOT PALESTIN- IANS W110-'HAVE EMIGRATED TO KUWAIT OR SAUDI ARABIA BUT WHO ARE MORE INTERESTED IN MONEY AND REMITTANCES THAN IM ORGANIZING THEMSELVES POLITICALLY (OIHER THAN, AS HE NOTED SOMEWHAT SOUR- LY, TO FRIGHTEN KUWAIT INTO CUTTING OFF KHARTOUM PAYMENTS). IT IS NOT ISRAEL WHERE ARABS HAVE NO POLITICAL RIGHTS. IT IS NOT IN REFUGEE CAMPS TORRE TNHt;FITTANTS ARE UNDER CONSTANT FED- AYEEN PRESSURE. SECRET NOT No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14: LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 :WIVE 5ECRTARY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 W SECRET ? -2- SE C?R 2.T SECTION 1 OF 2 AMMAN 6712, .NODIS, NOV . 4. KING HAS INITIATED A SERIES OF POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS HERE IN JORDAN AND PM WASFI TELL IS DOING THE SAME. KING IS RECEIVING EVERY DAY GROUPS OF CITIZENS FROM VARIOUS AREAS (TODAY IT IS ZARKA AND AMMAN). THESE ARE WIDE-OPEN, FREE- RANGING TALKS IN4WHICH HE IS TRYING TO ASSESS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT, THESE TALKS WILL INCLUDE VARIOUS GROUPS OF PALESTINIANS, HOPEFULLY INCLUDING WEST BANKERS, EITHER OVER EXPRESSLY FOR THE TALKS OR RECENTLY EXPELLED, HE IS NOT SURE WHERE ALL THIS WILL LEAD TOr HE IS NOT AIMING A CONSENSUS BUT RATHER IS SEEKING INFORMATION. 5. HE VERY DEFINITELY WANTS TO SEE FURTHER DEFINITION OF WHAT PALESTINIANISM IS. WHILE HE HOPES SOMETHING WILL EMERGE FROM TALKS HE IS HAVING, HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS IS ENOUGH. HE IS WRITING, THEREFORE, TO HEADS OF ARAB STATES UGGESTING SUMMIT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN RELATIVELY NEAR U U;E, TO DISCUSS THIS PRECISE ISSUE. IN SUMMIT HE WILL PUT ACROSS IDEAS HE HAS COME UP WITH BUT WILL MAINLY TRY TO CON- FRONT OTHER ARAB LEADERS WITH NECESSITY DEFINING THEIR POS- ITION AND NOT MERELY REMOUTHING SLOGANS OF PAST. HE HOPES TO J HAVE SOME REPLIES SOON SO THAT WE CAN DISCUSS FURTHER WHETHER SUMMIT CAN BE HELD AND HOW ITS DIRECTIONS MIGHT BE INFLUENCED. 6. HE IS ALSO 'THINKING OF CREATING VIABLE YOUTH MOVEMENT HERE IN JORDAN. POLITICAL PARTIES ARE DEFUNCT AND THERE IS NO DYNAMISM IN POLITICAL PROCESS LARGELY, HE BELIEVES, BECAUSE YOUTH IS NOT BEING GIVEN A SAY. HE IS CONSULTING WITH VARIOUS 'YOUTH GROUPS AND HOPES TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD ON THIS PROJECT IN EARLY JANUARY. HE BELIEVES THAT YOUTH ORGANIZATION (AND PERHAPS YOUTH CONGRESS) WHICH MAY EMERGE YILL BE SOMEWHAT RADICAL BUT IS HOPEFUL THAT IT CAN LOOK REALISTICALLY AT TWO PROBLEMS: (A) ECONOIIC DEVELOPMENT OF JORDAN AND (B) A MIDDLE EAST PEACE SETTLEMENT INCLUDING THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM. HE APPEARS TO BE THINKING, BUT THIS I WANT TO CHECK AGAIN, THAT PALESTINIAN YOUTH IN JORDAN SHOULD ORGANIZE ITSELF SEPARATELY YET BE PART OF LARGER GROUP SO AS TO HAVE ANIDENTITY AND MEANS TO PRESENT ITS VIEWS. (CW1MENT: HE IS RATHER HOPEFUL ABOUT THIS EXPERIMENT BUT HAS NOT/ I THINK, THOUGHT IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH YET.) 7. Y )-AS IANS sr 1 i P ? a 1 _ IS NOT AT ALL ?POSED TO IDEA THAT PALESTINIANS. SERVE ON THE JORDANIAN ?DE- LEGATION (AFTER ALL, EL FARRA'IS JORDAN'S APPOINTED. PRINCIPLE). WHAT HE IS AFRAID OF IS THAT HE CANNOT GET NEW FACES INTO THE. APT. ?FE ? AGREES THAT PQLITICALLY UNCONTAMINATED WEST 'BANKERS. INCLUDING RECENT EXPELLEES, WOULD BE USEFUL REPRESENTATIVES: IF,? ' T ET WOP E N HIS MIND WHEN AND IF PALESTIN-? SECRET NC No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14: LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 ECUT1VE SECRETARY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 ? SECRET - SECRE .T SECTION 1 OF 2 AtilIAN 6712, NODIS NOV 23 ? SECRET 25X1 NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14: LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 ? AA , Department of State 6 v LILA Si-AI-ES O? SFCRET P '231100Z NOV 70 . FM AMEMBASSY AMMAN 'TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2438 ? RI SE CR ET SECTION 2 OF 2. AMMAN 6712 N'O D I S CONTROL:'5 1 1,8Q RECD: 23 NOV 13 112 8. KING SAID THAT HE WOULD BE EXPANDING ON HIS IDEAS FOR.SELF- ['DETERMINATION F L5;',""r ANN WHILE IN-US. ESSENTIALLY, HE SEES .A. S W Y WEST BANK COULD NOT BE INDEPENDENT IF THAT IS WHAT WEST BANKERS WANT, ONCE WEST BANK LIS RESTORED TO JORDAN. HE WOULD BE WILLING TO HAVE AN HOSEST REFERENDUM BUT DID NOT SPECIFY WHETHER OR NOT HE MEANT UN- - SUPERVISED OR WHAT, BUT I THINK HE IS SINCERE IN STATEMENT THAT IT IS UP TO WEST BANKERS TO MAKE THEIR CHOICE: INDEPENDENCE, A FEDERATION IN WHICH THEY WOULD HAVE A LARGE MEASURE OF AUTONOMY 'AM AN OTE IDENTITY UNOTE, OR MANTENANCE OF PRE-1967 RELATIONSHIP. HE SAID, IN FACT, THAT IF THEY WANT INDEPEND- ENCE, FINE. THEN JORDAN WILL SAY THAT IT IS NO LONGER RESPONSIBLE . FOR PALESTINIAN PROBLEM AND WILL BE ABLE: TO RUN ITS FOREIGN POLICY JUST AS DOES UAR, ALGERIA OR ANY OTHER ARAB STATE WHICH HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR PALESTINAINS BUT PLENTY OF ADVICE FOR JORDAN. 9. WE DID NOT.GET INTO ANY DEPTH ON WHAT USG COULD DO TO HELP? OR ?WHETHER WE. SHOULD BE EXPANDING OUR CONTACTS WITH ? PALESTINIANS. SO. FAR AS LATTER IS CONCERNED, HE KNOWS THAT WE ARE SEEING LOTS OF PALESTINIANS HERE AND IN BEIRUT. HE HAS NO OBJECTION TO THIS. IN FACT, HE IS INTERESTED IN WHAT ? WE THINK THEY ARE THINKING. AS FOR CONTACTS WITH FATAH AND OTHER FEDAYEEN ORGANIZATIONS, I THINK THIS SHOULD REST A BIT .? . UNTIL 'HE cons. ? BACK AT ME ON THE ARAFAT QUESTION. 10.. ABOVE IS DISCURSIVE BUT IT WAS, AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, A RATHER RAMBLING TALK. I WOULD APPRECIATE DEPARTMENT'S COMMENTS. 1. FOLLOWING IS AN ASIDE BUT MEANINGFUL ONE. I TOLD KING THAT I UNDERSTOOD THAT FATAH MAY HAVE SOME TAPES OF MY. TALKS WITH VIM AND ZAID RIFAI DURING CRISIS AND THAT, SHOULD THESE BE BROUGHT INTO OPEN BY ARAFAT, IT MIGHTBE EMBARRASSING TO HIM. I SAID WE WOULD NATURALLY. DENY AUTHENTICITY. I . THOUGHT. WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SCARE OFF FATAH BY THREATENING SF/RFT ? NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITH \../U THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14: LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/10/14 : LOC-HAK-293-1-10-4 f stCREr. -2-SECRET SECTION 2 OF 2 AMMAN 6712, NODIS, NOV 23 0 RELEASE SOME OF. THEIR -SECRETS. HE SAID, IF WE NEED IT, HE WOULD GIVE US SOME .TAPES WHICH WOULD BE MOST .EMBARRASSING TO FATAH. I WANTED TO WARN KING BUT ALSO TO SEE HIS REACTION. #1,IE DOE.S NOT TRUST ARAFAT ONE .BIT AND THIS .SHOULD ? BE UNDERSTOOD. . R o WN BT . 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