Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of attacks by "Black September",; as the attacks by the Jordanians on the P.L.O. have come to be known, are played down by the Jordanian government in Amman. For the time being at least, King Hussein has made his peace with the P.L.O. At a summit meeting of Arab leaders in Rabat, Morocco, in 1974, the King agreed that the P.L.O., not Jordan, would represent the interests of the 720,000 residents of the West Bank, the Jordanian territory that was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Moreover, Hussein had to accept about 2,000 P.L.O...
...country that was still seething with rage over the invasion of Lebanon by the Israelis, the siege of Beirut and the military defeat of the P.L.O. The Jordanians did not so much attack the Israelis-they are assumed to be the perennial foes-as the U.S. and the other Arab states. The U.S. was criticized as the ally of the Israelis. Said one knowledgeable Western Western diplomat: "There is no question but that the level of anti-Americanism here has reached an alltime high in many, many levels of Jordanian society...
...feeling of anti-Americanism was especially strong among the well-educated and economically prosperous Palestinians, but all levels of the population were scathingly critical of the other Arab states for not coming to the aid of the P.L.O...
...What has happened proves that the Arab world is totally incapable of dealing with Israel...
...behind the bland expressions of good will, there is a determination not to let the Palestinians ever plunge Jordan into either another civil war or another bout of border fighting with Israel. "The P.L.O. would be welcome [as a fighting force] if there were an Arab strategic fighting plan to face Israel militarily," the same Jordanian official says. "As long as such a strategy does not exist, we will not allow the rise of an armed movement within Jordan. You want to fight Israel? That means men, arms. Set up a strategy, then we are interested. Otherwise...