Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOETHALS -- RGA Representative (1967-68); RUS, Vice President 1968-69); President, Jordan J (1968-69); American Indian Project (1967); Major: Social Relations...
Palestinian Power. Negotiations are likely to be painfully slow, not only because of the vast gulf between the Arab and Israeli positions but also because of the sheer number of participants: the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Israel, Egypt and Jordan, plus the U.N.'s Jarring. Yet the diplomats already face a stiff penalty for delay in the fast-rising political power of the one interest group that will not be represented, the Palestinian fedayeen commandos. In any settlement, the Israelis will insist that Arab governments curb fedayeen within their own borders, something that they are increasingly unable...
...reasonably well with the government; emigration is permitted, and persecution is all but nonexistent. Tunisia's 10,000 Jews live quietly. There are only about 1,000 Jews in Algeria, and despite the government's intransigent views on Israel, they are not persecuted. In Saudi Arabia and Jordan, there is no danger of repression: all Jews have left...
...victory, has formally annexed Jerusalem's Arab section and taken over the Golan Heights, from which Syrian guns shelled Israeli kibbutzim for ten years. But Israel has-until now-left open the larger questions of what it intends to do with the populous West Bank of the Jordan River, and with the broad sands of Sinai, which have been a tank battleground in two wars...
Last week the Israeli Cabinet took the first step toward answering those questions. On the West Bank, it agreed to establish a total of 20 paramilitary settlements in the mountainous occupied territory overlooking the Jordan River. Three, in fact, have already been built; the decision was to authorize 17 more to be constructed this year. In Sinai, the Cabinet agreed to build up to ten nahals, or fortified settlements (one is already in operation in the northeastern Sinai). Israel will also establish three new towns in the occupied lands, one between Jericho and Jerusalem, another east of Hebron...