Then the West Bank Jordanians would have been liquidated.
There are many WBJs working as MDs in Israel’s hospitals.
I've been in Jordan....Petra is not to be missed!
"Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Was it true that in 1970 Syria tried to invade Jordan, and was only prevented from doing that by Israel?
Yes.
During the civil war between PLO led Palestinians and the Hashemite kingdom, under the late King Hussein (which included the bloody events of black September and lead to the PLOs migration to South Lebanon), Syria, under pretense of assisting the Palestinians, launched a land invasion into the North of Jordan.
King Hussein, whose forces were spread too thin, secretly contacted the White House in request of aid.
Nixon wouldn't hear of it, the U.S was stuck knee deep in the Vietnam War,
and a conflict in another country they couldn't point at on the map was the last thing the American public would hear of.
Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, came up with a surprising concept: reach out to
Israel for assistance.
In a low profile channel, Prime Minister
Golda Meir, and Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan were approached with the request.
(The liaison was Israeli ambassador to the U.S at the time,
Yitzhak Rabin, this was later a pinnacle point in the personal friendship that grew between him and King Hussein)
Kissinger made it clear that Hussein is in dire need, what little forces Jordan could spare were no match for the Syrian armored divisions, and they were taking significant losses on the ground and in the air, not affecting Syrian progress deep into Jordan substantially enough.
He also explained why the U.S could not act directly.
Dayan and Meir agreed almost instantly requesting confirmation that Hussein would agree to accept such help.
Kissinger reached out, a reluctant but desperate Hussein agreed, requesting only that the Israelis act in a way that would be somehow kept under the radar.
Within less than a day, the IAF commander, sent a wing of 4 Israeli F-4E Phantom jets on an insanely dangerous mission:
To fly low over the charging Syrian land divisions, throughout the entire northern Jordan front, making sure that the Syrians can positively ID the planes as Israeli Phantoms. The mission was carried out with the wing making sure to deliver several supersonic booms along its route.
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Within hours Damascus began receiving reports of "mass waves of Israeli air forces attacking Syrian forces all over the front."
A few hours later the invasion was at a stand still, followed by an immediate retreat back to Syria.
The events in Jordan erupted on Sep 17th.
Syria invaded on
Sep 20th.
Hussein reached out on the
21st.
Israel acted on the
22nd.
The invasion was aborted on the
23rd.
Israel managed to help out Hussein as he requested:
Without firing a single bullet.
Hussein unofficially confirmed this record of events in 1995, a year after the peace agreement, they were later officially confirmed to the NY times on 2001.
The event brought to the end, de facto, of Israeli Jordanian hostilities, Jordan did not participate in the Yom Kippur war in 73, and served to secretly, but officially establish an Israeli-US strategic alliance in a way that was rewarded 3 years later in that same war.
For more info:
Page on wikispaces.com
Black September, The PLO's attempt to take over Jordan in 1970
http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/p...
Page on ndu.edu
Israel–Jordan relations
A truly unique event in Mid East history.