Hussein's Legacy

To the Editor:

I found that Yehuda Burns' story regarding King Hussein had significant omissions regarding the treatment of Israel by Jordan under Hussein's reign. Burns fails to mention that under Hussein's leadership between 1948-1967, the Jordanians desecrated many of the Jewish holy sites in the old city. Burns also claims that Hussein was "conned" into the Six-Day War. Hussein was not conned into anything. He willingly joined the other Arab nations in an attempt to wipe Israel off the map.

Additionally, I was shocked that Burns, a Yeshiva University student would uphold the anti-Israel sentiment shared by the vast majority of today's media and refer to Yehuda and the Shomron as the "West Bank" (Burns did so three times in his article). I hope that the rest of the Yeshiva University student body was offended by this discrepancy.

Josh Hasten

YC, JSS '98

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