Word: transjordan
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...recently contrived state with few natural boundaries and almost no tradition of nationalism. After the British wrested Palestine from the Ottoman Empire in World War I, they administered the region as a League of Nations mandate. The British put the territory east of the Jordan River, known as Transjordan, under the local rule of Hussein's grandfather Emir Abdullah. When Abdullah first pitched his tents in Amman in 1921, he took over an impoverished desert area more than four times the size of Massachusetts that was peopled mainly by nomadic Bedouin tribes...
Jordan: In September 1970, King Hussein killed 10,000 Palestinians and forced the PLO out of Jordan. Since then, Husseins's rule has gone virtually unchallenged. Yet little if any pressure has been placed on Jordan to enter negotiations on the Palestinian question, despite the fact that Transjordan (an emirate created in 1922 by Britain) composes 80 percent of the land mass of historical Palestine, and despite the fact that the West Bank was only lost when Hussein agreed to join Nasser in the folly...
...independence ends, with Israel having gained 30% more territory than originally allocated to it. Transjordan annexes the West Bank. Some 750,000 Arab refugees have fled from Israel to neighboring states...
...methods of the Jewish Agency, headed by Ben-Gurion and other Zionist socialists. The agency sought a Jewish homeland through negotiation with the British and was willing to settle for a Jewish state coexisting with an Arab one in Palestine. The Irgun demanded all of Palestine and Transjordan; its motto: "Judea collapsed in fire and blood...
Died. Dr. Nelson Glueck, 70, archaeologist and Reform rabbi who thought the Bible a reliable map to buried historical treasure and proved it by digging his way to more than 1,500 archaeological finds in Transjordan and the Negev (TIME cover, Dec. 13, 1963); in Cincinnati. Dr. Glueck was called both "the scholar with a shovel" and "the rabbi with a rifle" because of his fearless exploring in the sniper-infested desert of strife-torn Israel...