Word: nablus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week from his hot, dusty capital of Amman. On the approach to the Palestinian hills the summer's last harvesters winnowed the wheat by throwing forkfuls in the air as in Old Testament times. As the caravan passed, they chanted in unison: "Welcome, Hussein, welcome, our King." In Nablus, traditional center of opposition to the crown, 4,000 citizens jammed the square to roar: "Long live Hussein." Longest and loudest ovation of the day was at Tulkarm, right on the Israeli border, where the welcomers all but mobbed the King. As the convoy sped off in the dusk...
Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans dwindled again to a tiny community. Today they number barely 350: about 200 near the Jordanian town of Nablus (Biblical Shechem), and another 130 across the border in the Israeli town of Haik...
...that included names, time and places, Nasser's Voice of the Arabs began broadcasting a story that Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai had met secretly last September with Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir near the Jordanian town of Nablus, and with King Hussein's full approval arranged to resettle Jordan's 500,000 refugees in return for $30 million that the U.S. would make available through Israel. "They will annihilate him," shrilled the Voice of the Arabs, and Cairo's newspaper ; Al Shaab urged the Palestinian...
...clothes and draped with a huge sign proclaiming the man a spy for Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm and Hebron-cities of that ancient land of Canaan whose milk and honey Moses' twelve spies once surveyed for the children of Israel-three other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been convicted as spies last December, accused of having been caught crossing the border...
...Back. His enemies would counterattack, and the King knew it. On Monday some 200 leaders of the Communist and pro-Nasser parties met at Nablus to compose what amounted to an ultimatum. They demanded: 1) release and reinstatement of all pro-Nasser officers, including Abu Nuwar; 2) dismissal of Hussein's new Cabinet; 3) sacking of Hussein's Court Minister; 4) a promise not to invite to Jordan Roving Ambassador James Richards, President Eisenhower's special representative in the Middle East; and 5) expulsion of U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory...