Word: jordanian
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...family of Harel, the founder of Migron, embodies that divide. Harel's father Israel was among the early settlers who crossed into Jordanian territory after the 1967 war. He says that settlers like him were driven by a collective Zionism akin to socialism. "Our motivation wasn't religious," says the elder Harel. But younger settlers, like his son, seek more "divine reasons" for spreading into the Palestinian lands. "This transition into religious nationalism is unfortunate. It makes us into a sect," the elder Harel says. "And it doesn't represent what the majority of Israelis think...
...stewardship in what may be the most challenging city hall position in the world - mayor of Jerusalem. Born in Hungary and raised in Vienna, Kollek was elected mayor of a then-divided Jerusalem in 1965. But two years later, after the war of June 1967 during which Israel drove Jordanian forces out of the West Bank, Kollek found himself running a reunified (and therefore sharply divided) city that included some of the holiest sites of the three Abrahamic religions. In a December 1971 essay on the building of a new Jerusalem, TIME wrote...
...fact that Bush is holding talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not in Baghdad, but in the comparatively tranquil Jordanian capital of Amman, has not gone unnoticed."One hundred and fifty thousand U.S. soldiers cannot secure protection for their president," mocked a Jordanian columnist, who called the choice of venue "an open admission of gross failure for Washington and its allies' project in Iraq...
...indeed be a dramatic demonstration of brotherhood if religious leaders and lay persons could join in re-tracing the route of their common ancestor, Abraham,” Carter has said, according to the project’s website.Some hope that the full retracing—beyond just the Jordanian segment—will be ready for visitors to experience soon.“If it were opening next year,” says Zaidi, “I would definitely consider doing it for a summer abroad...
...leave and abandon the benefits of their hard labor over the last two generations. Just as it is unthinkable here that the United States should give back Texas or Arizona to Mexico, it is nearly unthinkable that Israel should give areas like Gilo, which were nothing but desert under Jordanian control, over to a Palestinian state...