Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Arab moderates. Peres argues that Israel can recruit Egyptian support for limited autonomy under continued Israeli supervision, including new privileges for Arabs living in Jerusalem. With Egyptian backing, Israel would seek Saudi support and a similar settlement in Gaza, then negotiations with Jordan and a possible joint Israeli-Jordanian trusteeship over the West Bank...
...inhabitants (slightly fewer than half of them Jews). "Jerusalem is mournful and dreary and lifeless," Mark Twain wrote in Innocents Abroad. "Everything in it is rotting," said Gustave Flaubert, "the dead dogs in the streets, the religions in the churches." Today, after a turbulent sequence of British, Jordanian and Israeli conquests, after years of sporadic bombings and gunfire, this beautiful and richly diverse city is vibrant with growth and prosperity...
...strangest symbol of such controversy is Anwar Khatib, a suave attorney who maintains a dingy office behind the Herod's Gate post office and proclaims himself to be the Jordanian governor of Jerusalem. And although the last Jordanian forces were driven out of Jerusalem 15 years ago this June, a number of consuls come to pay him Official courtesy calls...
...paradoxical symbolism of Jerusalem flickers all through its commercial life. Just across the street from the Damascus Gate, near the East Jerusalem bus station, which still displays signs announcing the nonexistent express bus to the Jordanian capital of Amman, the British Bank of the Middle East stands apparently abandoned. Its front windows are covered by rusty metal shutters, the shutters covered with Arab handbills. "The Israelis wanted the bank to stay open," says an Arab wise in local charades, "but then it might be closed down in all Arab countries. So the manager remains here to do business...
...plan. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has decided to create a joint armed forces command and a military strike force designed to intervene if any of the member states is threatened. So far, however, only Jordan has actively participated in the Iran-Iraq war. A 2,000-man Jordanian force has been formed to fight on the Iraqi side, and Jordan's King Hussein has even offered to lead his men into battle...