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Suppose that the Battle of Karameh in 1968 goes a little differently, and Yasser Arafat is killed before the Jordanian Army intervenes on behalf of the PLO to drive back the IDF. Headless and in chaos, the PLO is initially left by the wayside as the Jordanians claim the victory.

Could this lead to butterflies down the line wherein as the PLO and other Palestinian organizations fracture to infighting, HRM King Hussein could directly assume, head and lead the Palestinian cause, in effect transitioning Jordan from a Bedouin desert kingdom into the national home for much if not most of the Palestinian exodites? One which would see the return of the West Bank even, lost years previously in the Six Days War?
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