Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia...
...Iraq, a member of the Council, bitterly fought any compromise with the original resolution. The Council finally decided that the Garreau Plan (internationalization only of special areas around holy thrones) strayed too far from the Assembly's vote. Instead, it adopted a "Statute of Jerusalem," a set of administrative regulations, but it has been unable to decide how or when these regulations can go into effect...
Syria and Lebanon are suffering too much from an inflation caused by the last war to bother starting a new one. Iraq was never militarily effective, and Saudi Arabia did not enter the Palestine war too seriously. In the field of economic sanctions, Saudi Arabia is enjoying its oil royalties too much to use sanctions. Iraq is making it difficult for American oil interests because of the United States' support of Israel, but it has not yet taken any definite action...