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=== Jordan severs ties with the West Bank ===
Jordan severed its residual administrative and financial ties to the West Bank in the face of sweeping popular support for the [[PLO]].<ref>Pearlman, p. 113</ref> The failure of the "Iron Fist" policy, Israel's deteriorating international image, Jordan cutting legal and administrative ties to the West Bank, and the U.S.'s recognition of the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people forced Rabin to seek an end to the violence though negotiation and dialogue with the PLO.<ref name="Shlaim2000_455-457">[[#Shlaim2000|Shlaim (2000)]], pp.&nbsp;455–7.</ref><ref>[http://www.fpri.org/peacefacts/023.199511.sicherman.rabinappreciation.html Foreign Policy Research Institute] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909204606/http://www.fpri.org/peacefacts/023.199511.sicherman.rabinappreciation.html |date=9 September 2008 }} Yitzhak Rabin: An Appreciation By Harvey Sicherman</ref>