edition.cnn/2007/POLITICS/11/28/nixon.papers/ Library director Timothy Naftali said the documents describe challenges such as how to get the Saudis more involved in solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, how to get them more engaged against terrorism, how to address the Arab view that the United States always sides with Israel and how to build up moderate Palestinians to counter extremists. A 1973 diplomatic cable cites this objective: isolate and undermine terrorisms [sic] and commandos [sic] by establishing another, more stable and respectable Palestinian political entity and political personality. Documents detail U.S. efforts to persuade Saudi Arabia to move away from Fatah, the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization, because U.S. officials believed the PLO was supporting the terrorist-linked, anti-Israel group Black September, referred to as BSO... In 1970, as King Hussein dealt with threats by both Palestinian refugees in his country and Syrian military forces crossing Jordans border, the king asked the United States and Great Britain to intervene in the war in Jordan, asking the United States, in fact, to attack Syria, Naftali said. Syria had invaded Jordan and the Jordanian king, facing what he felt was a military rout, said please help us in any way possible. The telegram indicates that Hussein himself called a U.S. official at 3 a.m. to ask for American or British help. Situation deteriorating dangerously following Syrian massive invasion..., the document said. I request immediate physical intervention both land and air ... to safeguard sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Jordan. Immediate air strikes on invading forces from any quarter plus air cover are imperative.
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