Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was scattered gunfire from the Jordan side of Jerusalem, including a barrage aimed at an Israeli helicopter that strayed across the wall of no man's land. Palestinian troops in the Gaza Strip lobbed mortar shells at Israeli positions for 40 minutes without hitting anything, and Egypt charged that the Israelis had fired on Arab farmers near Gaza. Along the straight-edged border that divides the Negev Desert (Israel) from the Sinai Desert (Egypt), the Israelis captured an Egyptian colonel and four of his men who had lost their way and wandered onto the wrong dune...
Prepared to Die. While Egypt's troops and 5,000 men of the Palestinian Liberation Army faced Israel on the West, 40,000 Syrians to the north squinted into Israel, as Major General Hafez Assad put it, "with their fingers tight on their triggers." Jordan's 40,000-man Arab Legion moved into position in the west, and Iraq sent 5,000 troops to help out in Syria. Algeria promised an airlift of troops, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, ordering 20,000 of his men into Jordan, proclaimed that "any Arab who falters in this battle...
Hussein's refusal to arm Jordan's Palestinian refugees against another attack by Israel had merely spurred the flow of contraband weapons that have been filtering quietly into refugee camps on both sides of the Jordan River. Jordanian troops uncovered one huge arms cache in Hebron and, after a blazing gunfight that left one policeman dead, intercepted another truckload of weapons heading into Nablus. At an anti-Hussein demonstration in Damascus, Syrian Chief of State Noureddin Attassi promised Jordanians all the weapons they needed-not to fight Israel, but to overthrow Hussein. "Today," Attassi roared, "Jordan will...
...Defense Council once again demanded that Hussein bolster his border defenses with troops from neighboring Arab countries; and once again, the little King refused, realizing that such troops would be a potential fifth column that could bring down his throne. That was small consolation to the angry, anxious Palestinian refugees who live close to the frontier with Israel. They demand protection from Israeli attack, and they do not care who supplies it. If the King will not, many of them are in a mood to turn to another ruler who will...
...moderate King Hussein, who is more or less caught in the middle between the Israelis and the Arab extremists, he had to listen to radio pleas from Syria and Egypt urging Jordan's 700,000 Palestinian refugees to overthrow their monarch. To get his country ready for any explosion, Hussein put his security forces on a round-the-clock alert; he began sending extra arms to police posts on the border, started drafting all men between 18 and 40 for 90 days of crash training and strung his tough, trusted Arab Legionnaires all along the frontier. His forces soon...