Word: transjordan
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Moderates of Ben-Gurion's socialist party, the strongest in Israel, had been willing to accept a limited Zionist state in the hope of achieving peace and order. Revisionists scorned, such compromise, demanded all of Palestine and Transjordan. The insignia of the Irgun (an outgrowth of the Revisionists) flaunted an arm holding a rifle above an outline of the old double Palestine-Transjordan mandate. Proclaimed its motto: Rak Kach (Only Thus). By terror and sabotage, the Irgun argued, the British could be driven from Palestine and the Arabs restrained...
...peace now depended on the willingness of both sides to give a little ground at Rhodes. But Israelis said that they would never consider any solution that did not recognize Israel's sovereignty; Arabs were still flatly refusing to acknowledge even the existence of the Jewish state. Said Transjordan's King Abdullah: "There is in Palestine a fire which must be extinguished. The Western states wish to bury this fire under embers which might rekindle and again burst into flame...
Amazed that the cover of TIME, May 24, did not honor Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, rather than Britain's "stooge" King Abdullah of Transjordan...
Didn't you think there was something missing from the picture of King Abdullah of Transjordan on your cover...
...think the caption under the picture of King Abdullah of Transjordan, "I shall do as I please," could well be changed to read: "I shall do as it pleases England...