Word: transjordan
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David Ben-Gurion's Israeli government and King Abdullah of Transjordan were watching each other closely...
...Egyptian army (now reduced to half a dozen pockets), the encirclement of Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast, and the flight of the Mufti's Arab Palestine government from Gaza to a Cairo suburb, where it declared itself ready to cede "its" territory to Transjordan's King Abdullah. By routing the Egyptians and their stooge, the Mufti, the Israelis had greatly strengthened the hand of Abdullah, the one Arab leader with whom they thought they might successfully talk peace. By the same token, they had increased the dissension between him and his jealous Arab rivals...
...Arab neighbors had been helping out with relief of a sort. Lebanon, with more than 70,000 refugees, was trying to shelter them in barracks, schools and tents. The border town of Bint-Jebeil (see cut), with a population of 6,000, had put up 5,000 guests. In Transjordan's capital city of Amman, more than a thousand were holed up in the dank underground galleries of the ancient Roman amphitheater. Their ration was a pound of dark bread...
...intolerable to the point where Egyptian censors even rewrote correspondents' copy to suit themselves ; there were repeated acts of violence against foreigners on the streets of Cairo; TIME was banned for being "unfriendly to the Arab cause" after our May 24 cover story on King Abdullah of Transjordan...
...Jews now come to terms with the Arab world whose insecure leaders do not dare cross up the people they have inflamed against Israel? The Jews' hopes of a deal are pinned on Abdullah of Transjordan, whose British paid and trained Arab Legion bolsters up his position as Arab spokesman and leaves him free to compromise. Ironically, it is the British subsidy to Abdullah (against which the Zionists rail) that offers the best chance of attaining the understanding with the Arabs essential to Israel's future peace and commerce...