Authors: Avi Shlaim
Lion of Jordan (120 page)
31 May 1974 | The IsraeliâSyrian disengagement agreement is signed. |
26â9 Oct. 1974 | Arab League summit at Rabat recognizes the PLO as âthe sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people'. |
13 Apr. 1975 | Outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. |
1 Sept. 1975 | IsraeliâEgyptian interim agreement, Sinai II. |
1 June 1976 | Syrian military intervention in Lebanon. |
9 Feb. 1977 | Queen Alia dies in a helicopter accident. |
17 May 1977 | Rise to power in Israel of right-wing Likud Party. |
1 Oct. 1977 | Joint statement by the US and USSR for reconvening the Geneva peace conference. |
19â21 Nov. 1977 | Sadat's visit to Jerusalem. |
14 Mar. 1978 | IDF launches Operation Litani in southern Lebanon. |
15 June 1978 | King Hussein marries Queen Noor (Lisa Halaby). |
5â17 Sept. 1978 | The Camp David Conference. |
17 Sept. 1978 | Israel and Egypt sign the Camp David Accords. |
2â5 Nov. 1978 | Arab League summit in Baghdad denounces the Camp David Accords. |
1 Feb. 1979 | The Islamic Revolution in Iran. |
26 Mar. 1979 | IsraelâEgypt peace treaty is signed at the White House. |
1 Apr. 1979 | Jordan severs diplomatic relations with Egypt. |
17 Sept. 1980 | Outbreak of war between Iraq and Iran. |
7 June 1981 | Israel bombs the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad. |
6 Oct. 1981 | Anwar Sadat is assassinated and Husni Mubarak succeeds. |
14 Dec. 1981 | Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights. |
6 June 1982 | Israeli invasion of Lebanon. |
4 July 1982 | IDF begins siege of West Beirut. |
21 Aug. 1982 | PLO fighters are evacuated from Beirut. |
1 Sept. 1982 | President Reagan announces his Middle East peace plan. |
9 Sept. 1982 | Arab League summit in Fez. |
4 Apr. 1983 | King Hussein and Arafat reach a draft agreement. |
10 Apr. 1983 | Jordan abandons initiative with the PLO. |
Feb. 1984 | Jordan reopens dialogue with the PLO. |
25 Sept. 1984 | Jordan re-establishes diplomatic relations with Egypt. |
22 Nov. 1984 | King Hussein opens the Seventeenth PNC session in Amman. |
11 Feb. 1985 | The JordanianâPLO accord is signed. |
1 Oct. 1985 | Israel bombs PLO headquarters in Tunis. |
19 Feb. 1986 | The JordanianâPLO accord is abrogated. |
July 1986 | Closure of PLO and Fatah offices in Amman. |
Aug. 1986 | Jordan unveils the West Bank Development Plan. |
11 Apr. 1987 | The HusseinâPeres London Agreement. |
19 Oct. 1987 | HusseinâShultz meeting in London. |
8â11 Nov. 1987 | Arab League summit in Amman. |
9 Dec. 1987 | Outbreak of the first Palestinian intifada. |
27 Jan. 1988 | George Shultz launches his peace initiative. |
7â9 June 1988 | Arab League summit in Algiers. |
18 July 1988 | End of the IranâIraq War. |
28 July 1988 | Jordan terminates West Bank Development Plan. |
31 July 1988 | Jordan disengages from the West Bank. |
15 Nov. 1988 | PNC meeting in Algiers recognizes Israel and accepts UN resolutions on Palestine. |
14 Dec. 1988 | Arafat accepts US terms for talks with the PLO. |
16 Feb. 1989 | The Arab Cooperation Council is formed. |
18 Apr. 1989 | Outbreak of riots in Ma'an. |
8 Nov. 1989 | Parliamentary elections are held. |
Apr. 1990 | King Hussein appoints a sixty-member royal commission to draft a national charter. |
2 Aug. 1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait. |
3 Aug. 1990 | Arab League condemns the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. |
10 Aug. 1990 | Arab League approves military intervention against Iraq. |
24 Dec. 1990 | The Jordanian National Charter is announced. |
16 Jan.â28 Feb. 1991 | The Gulf War. |
Mar. 1991 | President Bush announces major new Middle East peace initiative. |
9 June 1991 | The Jordanian National Charter is adopted at a national conference. |
30â31 Oct. 1991 | Middle East peace conference convenes in Madrid. |
14 Dec. 1991 | Bilateral ArabâIsraeli peace talks begin in Washington. |
5 July 1992 | Political parties are legalized. |
Aug. 1992 | King Hussein undergoes cancer surgery in the US. |
13 Sept. 1993 | IsraelâPLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-government is signed in the White House (Oslo Accord). |
14 Sept. 1993 | Jordan and Israel sign a common agenda in Washington. |
1 Oct. 1993 | Prince Hassan and Shimon Peres launch the JordanianâUSâIsraeli Economic Committee in Washington. |
8 Nov. 1993 | Parliamentary elections. |
4 May 1994 | Israel and PLO reach agreement in Cairo on the application of the Declaration of Principles. |
18 July 1994 | JordanianâIsraeli negotiations move to the region. |
25 July 1994 | Washington Declaration is signed, ending state of war between Jordan and Israel. |
26 July 1994 | Hussein and Rabin address a joint session of Congress. |
26 Oct. 1994 | Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty. |
28 Sept. 1995 | IsraeliâPalestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) is signed. |
29â31 Oct. 1995 | Second MENA economic summit held in Amman. |
4 Nov. 1995 | Rabin is assassinated and Peres succeeds him. |
5 Jan. 1996 | Hamas master bomb-maker Yahya Ayyash (âThe Engineer') is assassinated by Israel. |
11 Apr. 1996 | Israel launches Operation Grapes of Wrath in south Lebanon. |
29 May 1996 | Binyamin Netanyahu defeats Peres in Israeli elections. |
25 Sept. 1996 | Clashes following opening of tunnel in the Old City of Jerusalem. |
2 Oct. 1996 | Summit meeting in Washington, DC, with Clinton, Hussein and Netanyahu. |
13 Nov. 1996 | Third MENA economic summit opens in Cairo. |
15 Jan. 1997 | The Hebron Protocol is signed. |
9 Mar. 1997 | Hussein sends strongly worded letter to Netanyahu. |
13 Mar. 1997 | Six Israeli schoolgirls killed by a Jordanian soldier at Naharayim crossing. |
18 Mar. 1997 | Construction begins of Jewish housing at Har Homa in East Jerusalem. |
25 Sept. 1997 | The Khalid Mishal Affair. |
14 July 1998 | King Hussein leaves Jordan for medical treatment in the US. |
23 Oct. 1998 | The signing of the Wye River Memorandum. |
19 Jan. 1999 | King Hussein returns to Jordan from the US after treatment for cancer. |
25 Jan. 1999 | Crown Prince Hassan dismissed and Prince Abdullah bin Hussein named crown prince. |
26 Jan. 1999 | King Hussein leaves for the US for emergency medical treatment. |
5 Feb. 1999 | King Hussein's final return to Jordan. |
7 Feb. 1999 | King Hussein dies, King Abdullah II proclaimed king and Prince Hamzah appointed crown prince. |
8 Feb. 1999 | King Hussein's funeral. |
JORDANIAN OFFICIALS
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With very few exceptions interviews were held in Amman
)
Name | Date | Principal Position |
|---|---|---|
Abdullah bin Hussein | 19 December 2002 | King |
Dr Kamel Abu Jaber | 13 September 2001 | Foreign Minister |
Hasan Abu-Nimah | 7 March 2002 | Ambassador |
Adnan Abu-Odeh | 16 September 2001 | Political Adviser |
Jawad al-Anani | 19 September 2002 | Foreign Minister |
Fouad Ayoub | 15 March 2002 | Ambassador |
Princess Basma bint Talal | 21 December 2002 | Sister of Hussein |
Dr Musa Braizat | 21 December 2002 | Ambassador |
Dr Munther Haddadin | 15 September 2002 | Minister of Water and Irrigation |
 | 17 September 2002 |  |
Dr Mustafa Hamarneh | 14 March 2002 | Academic |
Prince El Hassan bin Talal | 19 September 2001 | Crown Prince |
 | 17 September 2002 |  |
 | 11 January 2007 |  |
Hussein bin Talal | 3 December 1996 | King |
Dr Taher Kanaan | 11 September 2002 | Minister of Planning |
Name | Date | Principal Position |
Marwan Kasim | 17 September 2001 | Deputy Prime Minister |
 | 15 September 2002 |  |
 | 19 September 2002 |  |
 | 16 December 2002 |  |
 | 18 December 2002 |  |
General Muhammad Rasoul al-Keilani | 20 December 2002 | Director of General Intelligence |
Dr Musa al-Keilani | 20 December 2002 | Journalist |
Awn Khasawneh | 22 December 2002 | Chief of the Royal Court |
Abdul Ilah al-Khatib | 13 March 2002 | Foreign Minister |
Ahmad al-Lozi | 15 December 2002 | Prime Minister |
Dr Abdul Salam Majali | 18 September 2001 | Prime Minister |
 | 19 September 2001 |  |
General Hussein Majali | 21 December 2002 | Chief Security Officer to Hussein |
Taher al-Masri | 21 September 2001 | Prime Minister |
 | 6 March 2002 |  |
 | 10 March 2002 |  |
 | 11 March 2002 |  |
 | 14 September 2002 |  |
Marwan Muasher | 13 March 2002 | Foreign Minister |
Rajai Muasher | 21 December 2002 | Minister of Industry and Trade |
Dr Hani Mulki | 17 September 2001 | Minister of Trade |
Dr Samir Mutawi | 18 September 2001 | Minister of Information |
 | 6 March 2002 |  |
Omar Nabulsi | 20 September 2002 | Minister of National Economy |
Dr Hazem Nusseibeh | 18 September 2002 | Foreign Minister |
Prince Raad bin Zaid | 16 September 2002 | Lord Chamberlain |
General Natheer Rasheed | 20 September 2002 | Director of Intelligence |
Zaid Rifa'i | 19 September 2002 | Prime Minister |
 | 20 December 2002 |  |
Abdullah Salah | 12 December 2002 | Ambassador |
Name | Date | Principal Position |
Princess Sarvath | 11 January 2007 | Wife of Prince Hassan |
Dr Jamal Sha'er | 20 September 2001 | Minister of Local Government |
Sharif Zaid bin Shaker | 12 March 2002 | Prime Minister |
Laila Sharaf | 18 September 2002 | Minister of Information |
 | 22 December 2002 |  |
General Ali Shukri | 16 September 2001 | Director of Hussein's Private Office |
 | 17 September 2001 |  |
 | 18 September 2001 |  |
 | 11 September 2002 |  |
 | 13 September 2002 |  |
 | 11 December 2002 |  |
 | 13 December 2002 |  |
 | 14 December 2002 |  |
 | 15 December 2002 |  |
 | 16 December 2002 |  |
 | 19 December 2002 |  |
 | 22 December 2002 |  |
 | 24 February 2003 |  |
 | 26 March 2003 |  |
 | 9 June 2003 |  |
 | 12 June 2003 |  |
General Ihsan Shurdom | 12 March 2002 | Commander of the Air Force |
General Tahseen Shurdom | 16 September 2002 | Director of Public Security |
Prince Talal bin Muhammad | 11 September 2002 | National Security Adviser to Hussein |
 | 12 September 2002 |  |
 | 24 September 2002 |  |
Mreiwad al-Tall | 12 September 2001 | Court Official |
Tariq al-Tall | 11 August 2001 | Academic |
Dr Fayez Tarawneh | 18 December 2002 | Prime Minister |
ISRAELI OFFICIALS | ||
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Major-General Meir Amit | 21 March 2002 | Director of the Mossad |
Dr Yossi Beilin | 23 June 2004 | Minister of Justice |
Name | Date | Principal Position |
Simha Dinitz | 21 July 1982 | Director-General of PM's office |
Miriam Eshkol | 12 December 2002 | Librarian of the Knesset |
Mordechai Gazit | 22 June 2004 | Director-General of PM's office |
General Shlomo Gazit | 23 June 2004 | Director of Military Intelligence |
Eitan Haber | 24 June 2004 | Director-General of PM's office |
Dan Meridor | 21 June 2004 | Minister of Justice |
Dan Patir | 20 June 2004 | Press Secretary to PM |
Shimon Peres | 22 June 2004 | Prime Minister |
 | 24 June 2004 |  |
Itzhak Rabin | 22 August 1982 | Prime Minister |
Professor Itamar Rabinovich | 23 June 2004 | Ambassador to United States |
Moshe Sasson | 8 September 1982 | Ambassador to Egypt |
 | 21 March 2002 |  |
Yaacov Shimoni | 26 September 1982 | Foreign Ministry Official |
AMERICAN OFFICIALS | ||
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Wesley Egan | 2 December 2003 | Ambassador to Jordan |
Cranwell G. Montgomery | 3 December 2003 | Ambassador to Oman |
Nicholas Veliotis | 3 December 2003 | Ambassador to Jordan |
Richard Viets | 1 December 2003 | Ambassador to Jordan |
BRITISH OFFICIALS | ||
Sir Mark Allen | 23 February 2007 (Oxford) | Political Counsellor, Amman |
Christopher Prentice | 7 November 2006 (Oxford) | Ambassador to Jordan |
Sir Roger Tomkys | 29 September 2001 (Cambridge) | Ambassador to Syria |