Word: kissalon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours, grim reports began rolling in. Israel charged Jordan with machine-gunning to death a 50-year-old watchman in Kissalon. Two days later, Jordan reported that in the dead of night Israeli troops hit Nahalin, just across the border from Kissalon, with machine guns, mines and grenades. While local national guardsmen stood off the attackers, Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb's Arab Legion raced to the rescue. Outnumbered, the Israelis fought their way three miles back to the border, carrying dead and wounded with them. Jordan's casualties: nine dead, including one woman...
Said Premier Sharett laconically: "It looks like a reaction to the Kissalon incident." Said Jordan's impetuous young King Hussein: "Victory will be ours." This week men tautly fingered triggers along the frontiers, and Arab-Israeli relations boiled up toward the worst crisis in the five years since the Palestine war ended...
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