Word: arabization
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...fighting services to Britain in the desert campaigns against the Turks. Abdullah ruled his arid waste spaces as a Bedouin black-tent state, with three courtiers alternating as Premier at the royal pleasure, and a British proconsul in the Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb Pasha-known affectionately by his Bedouin warriors as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw), in honor of a bullet wound incurred in World War I fighting-quoted the Arab classics, read the lesson Sundays at the Anglican chapel in Amman, and used Britain...
...Arab-Israel war transformed this Biblical land of Edom and Moab, nearly tripling its population (now 1,500,000), adding to its territory a remnant of Arab Palestine west of the Jordan River, and swelling the capital of Amman from a scraggly town of 35,000 into a lusty, horn-tooting city of 200,000. A sophisticated and embittered lot, the West Bankers captured most of the country's commerce, filled half the 40 seats in Parliament, and poured out vituperation toward the West -at Israel, and at the U.S., which in their eyes gave their birthright...
Water: Dulles urged Arab-Israeli agreement on division of Jordan waters to irrigate new land for development and refugee resettlement. Eric Johnston, the U.S. negotiator, worked out an agreement that was mutually advantageous to both sides, but could never quite bring either to sign (Israel is the more cooperative). Said the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem last week: "If the Johnston plan gave 99% of the Jordan water to the Arabs and helped Israel by only so much as one gallon, I would still...
...everything. But the urgency of a solution increases, and so does the difficulty, as the weeks go by. The subject is now high on the agenda of the U.S. National Security Council, and the British Foreign Office last week called home eight Middle East ambassadors for talks. In Jordan, Arab refugees from Palestine, spurred by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian agitators (and also by Communist agents) rioted in the streets and smashed up the U.S. consulate, bringing a protest from John Foster Dulles over Jordan's failure to protect U.S. property...
...though most Middle East experts do not expect a new Arab-Israeli war, there is also little chance (barring a bold and successful diplomatic intervention by the West) of peace. Says Ben-Gurion: "We have come a long way without peace. We can go a long way in the future without...