VOL. XXXVIIINO. 531 OCTOBER 1994

The Political Scene

Jordan and Israel have signed their peace treaty at a ceremony which thePalestinians who are in the middle of a blazing row with the Jordanians overJerusalem failed to attend. US President Bill Clinton was there, at the start ofa three-day tour during which he lectured all and sundry on the need to fight"terror," by which the Americans mean Hizbollah and Hamas. Hamas wasunimpressed. After meeting with Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad in...