Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposed to Jordan's continued existence, Nabulsi and his Palestinians set great store instead by Arab unity, believing that only through a strong, unified Arab nation could they regain their lost homes in Israel. Their ambitions reflected a natural loyalty to their land; the Communists rushed in to exploit it unnaturally, identifying the West as the cause of all their troubles, for having thrust the State of Israel into their midst. Shortly before Israel invaded Sinai, Jordan united its armed forces with Syria's and Egypt's, thereby ringing Israel, under the supreme command of an Egyptian...
...afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...
...eyes of Arab extremists, Abdullah was a British stooge, and insufficiently eager to resist the birth of Israel. They accused him of not fighting hard enough in the 1948 war, in which Israel held off and beat back its Arab neighbors and macje itself at home in a hostile land. When Abdullah accepted the 1949 armistice with Israel, he inherited the territory of the old Arab part of Palestine west of the Jordan River. It was a rugged land full of holy places-Bethlehem, Calvary and Gethsemane-but bedeviled by hatreds. Its inhabitants call themselves Palestinians, not Jordanians. They numbered...
Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower Plan aid, the young King wrote a blunt letter to Premier Nabulsi: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people." He demanded that Nabulsi purge his Cabinet of its three most...
...reassured him that Iraqi troops would be at his disposal. That meant that if the Syrians threatened to use their 4,000 troops and 30 Czech tanks in Jordan against the King, he could stop them by threatening to call in the Iraqis. But Israel, which wants no powerful Arab neighbor at its back door, has often warned that its army will enter Jordan whenever Iraqi soldiers do. On his return to Amman. Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador Mallory to his hilltop palace. The King wanted the U.S. to exert all its influence to keep the Israelis out. Hussein also phoned...