Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THAT ancient crossroads of the world [the Middle East] was, as we all know, an area long subject to colonial rule. This rule ended after World War II, when all countries there won full independence. Out of the Palestinian mandated territory was born the new state of Israel. These historic changes could not, however, instantly banish animosities born of the ages. Israel and her Arab neighbors soon found themselves at war with one another. And the Arab nations showed continuing anger toward their former colonial rulers, notably Great Britain and France...
...remnants of an Egyptian division, and the unhappy Egyptian Governor General of the Gaza Strip. He put his name to the surrender papers and handed over to Israel some 325 square miles of disputed real estate and the perplexing responsibility for some 250,000 ragged, ill-housed, ill-fated Palestinian refugees...
...weight around. When the British tried to line up Jordan with the Baghdad Pact, he counterpunched. Radio Cairo's propaganda, joined by Saudi gold and Communist intrigue, helped blow Glubb Pasha out of Jordan. Nasser's broadcasts spread hatred for the U.S. among the 900,000 Palestinian refugees. In French North Africa, Nasser's radio preached enmity to the French. Despite Nasser's "soldier's word" to the contrary, the French say that in Algeria they have captured 50 graduates of Egyptian non-com schools, and believe there are 500 more Egyptian-trained guerrillas fighting...
...national thrill that Jordan got three months ago by expelling Britain's longtime commander of Jordan's crack Arab Legion, Glubb Pasha, had spent itself. But Jordan, a poor desert kingdom crowded with 500,000 Palestinian refugees, had found no peace...
...midnight Nasser knew by telephone from his Paris embassy that the Mystère report was correct. All next day he thundered in speech after speech to his soldiers about "the West's continuing conspiracy," without attacking the U.S. by name. He announced the formation of a "huge" Palestinian army inside the Egyptian army, recruited among the 220,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza. Back in Cairo, 38-year-old Premier Nasser cried dramatically: "I have witnessed a turning point in the Middle East...