Word: transjordan
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...Arabs. Though Arabs did not conquer Palestine until A.D. 634, they have remained ever since, first as rulers and later as the subjects of an Ottoman hegemony that ended after the British captured Jerusalem in 1917. The British took part of Palestine east of the Jordan River to create Transjordan as a reward for the Hashemite dynasty, which helped Viscount Allenby defeat the Turks...
...partitioned what remained of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. When Arab armies marched on the infant state of Israel the following year−and were clobbered−the Israelis retaliated by seizing 1,400 square miles of Arab territory. Transjordan's King Abdullah, grandfather of the present King Hussein, annexed the Jordan River's West Bank, a sizable chunk of Palestine; he renamed his expanded kingdom simply Jordan. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured the West Bank as well as the Arab quarter of Jerusalem. This marked the 25th time that the old city, a holy...
...kings of Jordan set in motion the forces that have led to this shift in loyalties. Amman was a dusty musabilah, or market town, when King Abdullah, Hussein's grandfather, made it the capital of his new kingdom in 1921. Most of the country's Bedouins roamed Transjordan's eastern deserts, proud and hawklike men who scorned as inferiors the Arabs in cities. Allah made the Bedouin and the camel, they were wont to say, and then Allah made the town Arab out of the camel's droppings...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Frederick Gerard Peake, 83, British officer who founded the Arab Legion in Transjordan; of pneumonia; in Kelso, Scotland Peake got his desert experience under the famed Lawrence of Arabia in World War I, was then given his own command as inspector general of gendarmerie in Transjordan in 1921. The 1,200-man legion he organized ranged 'over 34,000 sq. mi. of mountainous desert policing some 300,000 people and proved to be the most efficient military force in the entire Arab world...
Jerusalem. Do I have to remind you that East Jerusalem as well as substantial parts of the West Bank were never part and parcel of Transjordan or the Kingdom of Jordan? They were conquered by the invading Jordan army in 1948, contrary to the United Nations partition resolution of 1947, which established an independent Arab and Jewish state (and set up Jerusalem as an international city). The Jordanians annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and then refused us access to our holy sites. Now all of a sudden, after they decided to attack in Jerusalem again in 1967, their...