Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from a pro-Nazi revolt in World War II and alone among Arab armies stood up to the Israelis in the Palestinian...
...three days Jordanians, many of them Palestinian refugees who rioted so destructively last December, danced in Amman's streets. When the young King drove through the capital after visiting his mother's palace, citizens stopped his Mercedes and crowded to shake his hand. Later, speaking from his balcony, Hussein pledged that his first goal will be to regain Arab rights in Palestine...
Shortly after the first scrolls were found, some charged that the manuscripts were medieval, not of the Christian era. Skeptics felt that it was impossible for the scrolls to have survived through the centuries in a Palestinian cave. Others said that they were complete fakes, imported from outside and designed to hoodwink enthusiastic archeologists...
Demonstrations, too coordinated to be spontaneous, began outside Jerusalem's mosques, spread all over the country. In the city sacred to three religions, mobs pushed through the Damascus Gate, singing and shouting slogans against the Baghdad pact and for immediate elections. Once again Palestinian refugees were in the mob's forefront. Gangs attacked the U.S. consulate, and for the second time in a month tore down the Stars and Stripes and trampled it in the street: Marine guards and Vice Consul Slator Blackiston drove the hooligans away with tear gas and pistols...
...promoting the economic and political stability of both Israel and the Arab states. If necessary, the U.S. must be willing to make substantial loans to the Israelis to help them keep their heads above the waters of economic bankruptcy and to the Arabs to aid in the resettlement of Palestinian refugees. The United States can offer Middle Eastern nations a volume and variety of technical assistance which the Soviet Union cannot come close to matching. And the U.S. can use good offices whenever possible, in such projects as the development of the Jordan River valley. These are programs...