Word: nabulsi
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...raped women at gunpoint. Onlookers insist that these were not Jordanian at all, but the Bedouin mercenaries from Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia who constitute a third of Hussein's army. "These foreign legionnaires didn't look on this as a police action," says former Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, 60, a non-Palestinian supporter of the fedayeen. "They thought it was a great gazu, just like one desert tribe raiding another...
Opposed to Jordan's continued existence, Nabulsi and his Palestinians set great store instead by Arab unity, believing that only through a strong, unified Arab nation could they regain their lost homes in Israel. Their ambitions reflected a natural loyalty to their land; the Communists rushed in to exploit it unnaturally, identifying the West as the cause of all their troubles, for having thrust the State of Israel into their midst. Shortly before Israel invaded Sinai, Jordan united its armed forces with Syria's and Egypt's, thereby ringing Israel, under the supreme command of an Egyptian...
Under a compact that Nabulsi made with Syria, schools in Jordan and Syria now give common degrees, follow common courses, and eventually were to use common textbooks (to be produced by Nasser's professors). The Nabulsi government also initialed an agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union that would shortly have shifted Jordan's economic capital to Damascus-an arrangement that Jerusalem's sharp traders were slow in getting wise to. In their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy...
Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower Plan aid, the young King wrote a blunt letter to Premier Nabulsi: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people." He demanded that Nabulsi purge his Cabinet of its three most...
...Bedouins swarmed over Amman, with faces blackened by charcoal as a sign they meant business, Hussein began warily to consolidate his opening triumph. There were, after all, other armies in Jordan. He invited Abu Nuwar to take a fortnight's leave in Syria, and kept on former Premier Nabulsi (known as "the ten-faced man") as Foreign Minister in a new Cabinet. King Hussein carefully proclaimed that Jordan would stick to its policy of "positive neutrality" and reject "imperialism" and foreign alliances. Then he talked Major General Ali Hayari, who comes from Abu Nuwar's home village...