To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Actually, the Palestinians did more than bite the Jordanian hand feeding them. Yasser Arafat's PLO tried to stage a coup against King Hussein's government (and murder the King and hid whole family to boot). The King turned the Jordanian Army loose on Arafat and company with orders to exterminate them. (See origins of Black September terrorist group.)
The Jordanian Army was kicking PLO butt until Arafat brokered a deal involving the UN. Arafat and the remains of his PLO were allowed to escape to Lebanon (with their weapons). When they got to Lebanon, they promptly set about destabilizing that country. The Lebanese civil war lasted off and on from 1975-1990.
7 posted on
09/24/2011 5:49:17 PM PDT by
MasterGunner01
(To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
To: MasterGunner01
Ooops. Typo: “his whole family” not “hid whole family”. My bad.
8 posted on
09/24/2011 5:52:39 PM PDT by
MasterGunner01
(To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
To: MasterGunner01
Ahhh, Springtime in Hades
9 posted on
09/24/2011 5:53:23 PM PDT by
STD
(Cut Taxes, Cut Spending Stupid!)
To: MasterGunner01
You got it right. When I hear someone talking about the “palestinians”, I tell them there is already a ‘palestian’ state. It’s called Jordan. At the time, it was Trans-Jordan. Noone wants the ‘palestians’ because they are just so much human garbage.
10 posted on
09/24/2011 6:16:21 PM PDT by
zeugma
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