WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: It was about a year after that famous handshake between the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and the PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, that breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian relations that President Clinton was so instrumental in helping to put together. In the months that followed, it was obvious that King Hussein of Jordan also was ready to make that kind of direct, public, personal exchange with Prime Minister Rabin. This was the first time they really had this public exchange and ending a state of belligerency. The enormous good will that resulted from the Rabin-Arafat handshake propelled Rabin and Hussein to do the same thing nearly a year later. And it set the stage for the eventual signing of a full and formal peace treaty between Israel and Jordan that was signed along the Israeli-Jordanian border. And as someone who has covered the Middle East for 25 years, almost 30 years, and remembering the '73 war and all the terrorist incidents that followed, it was a dramatic moment; one of the most exciting, one of the most riveting that I have experienced in all of my years as a journalist.
CNN 20: Israel-Jordan Summit, July 25, 1994