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...inhabitants who fled the Israeli advance. Gaza, however, constitutes a monumental nightmare, with its 330,000 Palestinian refugees in stucco and mud-hut camps, plus an impoverished civilian population of 100,000. And though the West Bank of the Jordan, now in Israeli hands, was the jewel of the Jordanian economy, its roughly 1,000,000 people scratched out an existence five times more meager than the Israeli standard of living...
...Name of Law. Of all the new territories, it is the Jordanian West Bank that offers Israel the greatest opportunity and the greatest challenge. If a viable West Bank economy can be created with Israeli know-how and the cooperation of the conquered Arabs, the region could well develop into a solution to the refugee problem, a defused buffer between Israel and the Arab world, a showcase proving that Jew and Arab can work and live together...
...West Bank's economy, some 25 Israeli bank branches have opened in the area, and last week the Israeli pound was made legal tender along with the Jordanian dinar. The Jeru salem government has virtually adopted the former Jordanian budget for the West Bank, including development plans for road building and other public works totaling $5,600,000 this year. All former local officials, including all the West Bank mayors and most city employees, have stayed on their jobs under Israeli rule. Wherever possible, Israel is keeping Jordanian law and custom intact. Thus schoolchildren will get their books free...
...Jordanian soldiers are among the best trained troops in the Middle East. One Israeli reservist who had just returned from an encounter with them admitted that they were incredibly courageous. "I respect the Jordanian soldier, they are very good, perhaps even better than we are," he said...
...June 10. In the air over Suez, the Israelis downed seven Egyptian planes, conceded one loss themselves. On the ground, scores of Israeli and Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded in the artillery barrages. And, for the first time since the ceasefire, scattered shooting broke out across the Israeli-Jordanian line...