Former Jordanian Prime Minister Taher al-Masri revealed that in 1984 Hafez al-Assad threatened military action against Jordan to prevent its rapprochement with the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Al-Masry said in memoirs entitled "The White Truth", and the newspaper "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" published the first episode of it, on Monday, that the former Jordanian monarch, King Hussein, saw an appropriate opportunity to throw a life-board from drowning to the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, who desperately needed to The Palestinian National Council holds its conference in 1984, to confirm its legitimacy.

He added that King Hussein offered Jordan to host the conference, and Arafat agreed without hesitation, which angered Syria very much. Hafez al-Assad tried to prevent it from convening with threats and threats at times, but his attempts could not dissuade King Hussein or Arafat from this matter.

Al-Masry pointed out that the conference was held in October 1984, coinciding with the mobilization of the Syrian ground forces on the northern border, threatening military action against Jordan, before things proceeded normally.

He explained that King Hussein was preparing for an international conference to solve the Palestinian issue, and began taking new steps towards a Jordanian-Palestinian agreement, to reach the international conference, and the agreement provided for land in exchange for peace, the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people and others.

According to the memoirs of the former Jordanian prime minister, Syria was against the agreement, and attacked it forcefully and forcefully, because Assad believed that he was transferring the Palestinian “card” from the Syrian hand to the Jordanian one, and that Jordan wanted to “take” Palestine Liberation Organization to become supportive of his policies, and seek to conduct negotiations with The United States and Israel to stay away from Damascus permanently, and it may lead to the weakening of Syria's negotiating position if Jordan is the only one in the organization.