Word: tulkarm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Testament times. As the caravan passed, they chanted in unison: "Welcome, Hussein, welcome, our King." In Nablus, traditional center of opposition to the crown, 4,000 citizens jammed the square to roar: "Long live Hussein." Longest and loudest ovation of the day was at Tulkarm, right on the Israeli border, where the welcomers all but mobbed the King. As the convoy sped off in the dusk, a palace official jubilantly summed up: "The most successful tour His Majesty has ever made...
...recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could see the broad, fertile fields of Israel half a mile away, fields once worked by Arabs. The crowds below were shouting: "King Hussein, our leader, our leader." But mingled in their shouts was the fiercer cry: "Give us back our homes, give us back our homes...
...fact that ten years of bitter sanctuary have wrought many changes in Palestine refugees. For eight years the refugees have been fed and cared for almost entirely by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Many had been farmers; some, in camps near Bethlehem and Tulkarm, had spent the years watching longingly from distances of a few hundred yards while the despised Israelis plowed land that once was theirs. At first the Arabs lived with the spittle of hate always moist on their lips. But as tireless UNRWA workers organized schools, hospitals, kitchens, maternity centers, libraries and sports fields...
...draped with a huge sign proclaiming the man a spy for Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm and Hebron-cities of that ancient land of Canaan whose milk and honey Moses' twelve spies once surveyed for the children of Israel-three other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been convicted as spies last December, accused of having been caught crossing the border with maps...
...commander of Kfar Saba is a mild-looking young man named David Tryfus, 29, the son of a German physician. He is responsible for the ten-mile strip of border running north and south between the Arab towns of Qalqiliya and Tulkarm. At night he called his patrol to attention, and pointed to a map marked with red lines that showed the infiltrator routes. "We ambush here tonight," he said...