Officials here have denied a report in Wednesday’s Jerusalem Post claiming that King Hussein is discussing in Alexandria a new Israeli peace proposal recently conveyed to him. The officials said no proposal was made. The Post’s Arab affairs correspondent, Anan Safadi, wrote that the plan was intended as a more permanent and farther-reaching settlement than a mere disengagement accord. It envisaged the return of a Jordanian government presence “to considerable parts of the West Bank, except for a salient stretching east from Jerusalem to the Jordan River.” Safadi wrote, The Jordanians would then have access to the West Bank’s northern and southern regions on both sides of Israel’s salient.
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