It ill behooves King Hussein to come to the United States to urge us to thwart Israel following the Johnson plan with its own money in using the waters of the Jordan to irrigate its lands. Such an attitude on the part of King Hussein is not becomingit resembles too great a "dog in the manger" attitude. In his speech King Hussein also shed crocodile tears for the plight of the refugees. most of whom live in Jordan. and who. according to King Hussein. were "forcibly uprooted from their homes. their property despoiled. and their means of livelihood cut off." Now King Hussein knows better than this. He knows that the refugees have been deliberately kept in poverty so as to be a constant source of agitation against Israel. Let me remind King Hussein that during this same period that the Arab nations kept some 1 million refugees in poverty and idleness to serve the bellicose aims of those countries. Israel admitted. absorbed. and made selfsupporting the same number of refugees. If Israel could do it. the Arab nations could have done itif they had had the will to do it. It is not too late.
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