World: Jordan: The King Takes On the Guerrillas

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More than any of the Arab peoples, the fedayeen fit the description set forth by T. E. Lawrence in his Seven Pillars of Wisdom more than 40 years ago: "They were as unstable as water, and like water would perhaps finally prevail." Will the guerrillas also ultimately prevail? In one way they already have, for the world will never again be able to ignore them, as they smolder in their refugee camps, without attempting to find at least some rational solution for their plight. In another way, they cannot prevail without first achieving a measure of stability and substituting a sense of modern reality for their fanatical insistence on the destruction of Israel.