Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan (pop. 1,500,000), a precarious sandtrap, is currently host to a Syrian brigade and an Iraqi brigade, nominally there to help defend it against Israel, but ready to pick up the pieces if Jordan itself flies apart. New Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, echoing the demands of the Nasserites in his Parliament, last week demanded the stopping of Britain's $33 million annual subsidy, but significantly qualified his demand by waiting to see whether his Arab neighbors would make up the difference to keep his country going. One of the few remaining benefits London gets for its Jordanian subsidy...
...Hashemite family in Iraq, has been moving gradually toward a rapprochement with Iraq, based on the common interest of the two largest oil-producing lands of the Arab world. (Saud fears that Syrians may blow up the U.S.-owned Tapline from his oil fields as they blew up the Iraqi pipeline.) From their new awareness could emerge an inner order in the Arab Middle East that colonialism was never able to find or foster there...
...states to break off relations with Britain and France unless the invaders pulled out of Egypt at once. But Jordan and Iraq were not yet ready to break with Britain, source of much of their revenues, and Lebanon's Chamoun did not want to break with anybody. The Iraqis let neighboring Syria know that they were extremely unhappy at destruction of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline across Syria. By blowing up three desert pumping stations, the Syrian army cut off 90% of Iraq's oil output for an estimated six months, at a cost in royalties...
...week's end Syrian forces in brigade strength moved over the border into eastern Jordan, and Baghdad announced that Iraqi armored elements were also on their way into Jordan. The presumption was that they were there to help Jordan defend itself against an Israeli invasion, although their presence might also give Israel the pretext for invading Jordan. By expanding eastward to the Jordan River, Israel could, at Jordan's expense, straighten out its borders (at one point only seven miles wide). That would leave Jordan with a wide stretch of desert, and not much to live...
...Peace but a Sword. Seven months ago Dag Hammarskjold rushed to the Middle East and signed all parties to a ceasefire. In a major speech to the Knesset, Ben-Gurion declaimed: "Preventive war would be madness." But all the time Israel prepared. Last month, when Iraqi troops were reported massing to enter a weakened Jordan, Ben-Gurion disappointed some of his followers by his mild response. Army Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan rose in the middle of the speech and stomped out of the Knesset gallery...