Word: arabization
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Your comment on Jordan gave a onesided impression of the position. British policies are both unfair and narrow-minded from the Arab point of view. Glubb's sacking has been greatly overpublicized...
Glubb Pasha must have had his head buried in the Middle East sands for 25 years if his dismissal from the Arab Legion came as a shock to him. I've been in the Middle East only four years, and it came as no surprise...
...flew to the rendezvous (piloting his de Havilland Dove himself) without his Prime Minister. Having successfully sacked Glubb Pasha, symbol of Britain's long Jordanian dominance, Hussein seemed to be savoring his independence. He had turned down the invitation to join Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria in their Arab "neutral" bloc, and he had already opened negotiations with the British on terms that seemed likely to assure for the young king the continuing of London's $25 million yearly subsidy, and the presence of a British military training mission, instead of the outright British command of Jordanian troops...
...help he can get. The ex-Palestinians who form two-thirds of his kingdom look to Egypt's arms and Saudi Arabia's gold to help drive the Israelis from their old homes. On the other side stands Iraq, Egypt's No. 1 rival in the Arab world. Iraq has the money ($200 million a year in oil royalties), plus the common Hashemite hatred that unites its King with Jordan's against the rival Saudi Arabian dynasty. After last week's desert meeting the Iraqi Cabinet went into emergency session to approve...
...checked in with Ed Murrow's filmed 1½-hour See It Now, devoted to Arab-Israeli tensions. The report from Egypt, handled by Howard K. Smith, was particularly chilling as Arab after Arab stepped up to blame the U.S. for all the troubles in the Middle East and to chant fanatically that the only solution was war with Israel. Israeli citizens and leaders were a good deal more skillful than the Arabs in creating an air of reasonableness and common sense but were equally deaf to any suggestion of significant border changes or concessions...