VOL. XXXI

NO.44

8-AUGUST-1988

The Middle East Situation

King Husain of Jordan has put the cat squarely amongst the pigeons with theannouncement that he is cutting all ties with the West Bank and turning overresponsibility for its administration and its future to the plc. Whatever theJordanian monarch's motives (and some observers saw these as tactical ratherthan strategic), the decision confronts all parties to the Arab-Israeli conflictwith choices they might have preferred to avoid if the...