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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nMarvin\nKalb/Kissinger\nmorning\n9/16/70\nK: I just wanted to check on one thing. When the President announced yesterday\nhis trip to Europe, I immediately saw it in a M. E. context. In checking with\na couple of people in State they waved off it but I am not off it. I consider it\nbrilliant to show the flag in this area.\nHAK\" My feeling is to trust my logic if my name is Marvin Kalb.\nK: He is showing concern in an area of great concern.\nHAK: In deep background, it's a very reasonable judgment but we couldn't\nsay that.\nK: Was there ever a time a consideration of the President to visi t Cairo and\nTel Aviv?\nHAK: Not really It's been considered in government but nothing serious.\nH: Finally, what is the general sense of where we are going in Jordan?\nHAK: it's one of those situations that's building up and going up and down.\nCould build into confrontation book between the King and Feydeen or an uneasy\ncompromise. Very precarious.\nK: In the Dept. yesterday they said if Palestinians take control in large portion\nof\nxxx Jordan it could make a big difference. Or would it just make it impossible\nfor Israel?\nHAK: Make peace with Israel very hard. Palestinians want extinction of Israel.\nK: You don't have much tolerance for the view that in time and with respon-\nsibility, the political course\nHK: To them it's not ideological. You have to give them credit for that.\nI can't say that it won't happen, but I wouldn't call that long-sl developing\ninto a posibive gambit.\nK: My only view is that it could have a positive result. I mean it would be worse.\nHAK: You know Marshall Shulman's story about the man who cane=home and\nfound his wife in bed with another man SO he shot them both. When he told his\nbest friend, he friend said \"It could have been worse. IT The man said how\ncould it have been worse? The friend said \"If you had come home early the\nnight before it would have been me. 11 No, if you are asking for my opinion, I'd\nhave to reach far to find a positive evolution in a Palestinian victory. They (?)\nwouldn't hold still for that."
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