Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solemnly recited their afternoon prayers and then sold several thousand acres of Israeli farm land to a smiling Arab sheik in return for his promissory note for 500,000 Israeli pounds. In exchange for a deposit of $17 down, the rabbis handed over legal ownership of the property to Abdullah Abu Kishek, then toasted the transaction with soda...
After Shemittah is over, three assessors representing the rabbinate will meet the sheik and hand him a revised bill of sale purportedly representing the true value of the land-which would be several million pounds more than he bargained for. Sheik Abdullah will do his part gracefully. He will protest his inability to pay, demand his release from the bargain, and return the deeds of ownership. The rabbinate will then give him back his $17, and the Israelis once again will own their land...
...fallow." Normally, Israel's substantial minority of Orthodox Jews transfer their property through the chief rabbinate to an accommodating Arab. Because of pressure from religious parties, the Israeli government ordered the rabbinate to sell all public lands as well for the duration of Shemittah. During the sabbatical year, Abdullah thus will be legal owner of more than 1,000,000 acres of Israel soil...
...Kashmir. Though Jawaharlal Nehru once vowed to "abide by the will of the Kashmiri people," India has always found reasons to avoid holding the referendum. Ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon has bluntly explained why India opposes the plebiscite: "Because we would lose it." The popular Moslem leader, Sheik Abdullah, first supported union with India. When he changed his mind, the Indians clapped him in jail...
...barely tolerated by both sides. The U.N. has four times ordered a plebiscite in Kashmir in order to determine the wishes of its inhabitants. India has always refused and, in 1957, a handpicked, Kashmiri puppet legislature declared the state an "integral" part of India. Kashmir's Sheik Abdullah, who belatedly objected to Indian domination and also called for a plebiscite, has spent most of his time in an Indian jail...