- Title: JORDAN: KING HUSSEIN ACCUSES ISRAEL OF DESTROYING PEACE HOPES
- Date: 12th March 1997
- Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN (MARCH 12, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV STREET SCENE 0.11 2. SLV NEWSPAPER KIOSK 0.18 3. SCU JORDAN NEWSPAPERS 0.23 4. SCU/CU JORDAN TIMES NEWSPAPER "KING TO NETANYAHU: YOUR ACTIONS HAVE MADE PEACE APPEAR LIKE MIRAGE: SADDEST REALITY IS I DO NOT FIND YOU BY MY SIDE" 0.37 5. SCU/CU AL-ASWAQ NEWSPAPER
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- Location: AMMAN, JORDAN
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- Country: Jordan
- Reuters ID: LVAAGFTWFK04PI77L457HJRUUBKA
- Story Text: - INTRO: King Hussein of Jordan has launched a bitter attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of destroying hopes for Arab-Israeli peace.
His brother, Crown Prince Hassan, has defended the King, saying his view represents popular opinion.
In a letter published on Tuesday (March 11) King Hussein of Jordan accused Netanyahu of reneging on a commitment to freeze construction of Jewish settlements and of "deliberate humiliation" of Palestinians by minimising Israel's next step of withdrawal from the West Bank.
Crown Prince Hassan told reporters on Wednesday (MArch 12) that the monarch was speaking for all Jordanians.
"I think that it is sad that his majesty is obliged to express...his views and innermost feelings," the prince said. "But his majesty represents a popular conscience and a popular will and possibly it is better to be candid than to cover the facts." Hassan was speaking after King Hussein's departure to Spain and the United States, where he is due to discuss the troubled Middle East peace process.
King Hussein is expected to meet U.S. President Bill Clinton, senior defence and state department officials and congressional leaders next week after a regular health check-up. He was treated for cancer in 1992.
Prince Hassan said a planned meeting of U.S., European and Arab envoys in Gaza on Saturday to discuss Israel's settlement plans in the West Bank would be "a healthy opportunity to explore views." "Let's remember the confrontation is not one of Arab and Israeli or Palestinian and Israeli," he said. "It is one between those who believe in building and consolidating peace and those who have other agendas."
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