Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seizure of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1950 had profound consequences for Jordan. Suddenly, some 900,000 West Bank Palestinians were under Jordanian rule. They, plus earlier Arab refugees from Israel, ultimately made the Palestinians the majority of Jordan's population. In contrast to every other Arab country, the Jordanian government immediately offered the Palestinians full citizenship...
...captured by the Israelis. The P.L.O. openly challenged the authority of Hussein's throne. The King finally reacted in 1970 with a brutal show of force that sent P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat and his fellow guerrillas fleeing to Lebanon. Hussein's relations with Arafat and the other Arab leaders were further strained in 1974, when an Arab conference named the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
Hussein was long suspect in the eyes of fellow Arabs for his openness to the West. He was denounced in the Arab world as a Western stooge in 1972 when he suggested a plan for a West Bank-Jordanian federation similar to the one that President Reagan proposed two weeks ago. But the King's standing among Arabs has improved dramatically in recent years. He won points by resisting strong U.S. pressure to bring him into the Camp David process, when he saw that it would not guarantee a return of East Jerusalem and the West Bank to Arab...
...overthrow the King because, as one put it, "the minute there is an anti-Hussein coup in Amman we know the Israelis will move into Jordan, and we certainly don't want that." The monarch once despised by the Palestinians is now regarded as a kind of Arab insurance policy against a new Israeli blitz...
...become "an important contribution to the advancement of peace in this area," and Thomas Dine, executive director of the 30,000-member American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the official lobby for American pro-Israeli groups, initially declared that he saw "a lot of value" in them. But after the Arab League at its summit meeting in Fez, Morocco, continued to insist on an independent Palestinian state, the A.I.P.A.C. issued a formal statement charging that Reagan's plan had fallen victim to "the classic pattern of Arab duplicity and American naiveté." The A.I.P.A.C. has nevertheless asserted that "there were...