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By Yehuda Amichai, Ted Huges, Michael Hamburger
Yehuda Amichai is Israel's hottest poet in addition to a literary determine of overseas acceptance.
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Would they side with the Jordanians in annexing Arab Palestine? Qawuqji sought to allay the Syrian president’s fears by indicating that the army of Arab irregulars, the Salvation Army, could be counted upon to intervene against the intrigues of other states and would not be used to The Earthquake of the 1948 Palestine War | 31 topple the weaker Syrian regime. When the Saudis asked Jordan to assign them some territory for the stationing of their troops, Qawuqji reported, the Jordanian monarch balked at this suggestion, fearing a Saudi plot to invade his country.
25 Whether or not the mufti was acceptable to the Syrian government, Transjordan’s Palestinian policy during the Palestine War viewed the Arab 34 | Syria and the Palestinians Higher Committee and its successor, the Government of All Palestine, in the same light. At the time, Syrians were acutely conscious of their military weakness and lack of preparedness, which heightened their fear of Jordan as well as of the new Jewish state. No one was more concerned than Khaled al- Azm over the issue of acquiring modern weapons for the Syrian army on the eve of the Palestine War.
Although his brief tenure in office did not turn violent, his coup opened the way for further military intervention. The general public never forgave the violent blow that he dealt to democratic rule. Once al-Za im seized power, the Israelis, fearing expansionist moves in their direction, issued several threats. Al-Za im responded by warning Ralph Bunche, the UN mediator, that any Israeli attempt to seize areas held by Syrian forces would force the Syrians to resume fighting. Since the Syrian-Israeli front was not yet subject to an armistice agreement, the Syrian body politic began to experience the familiar pangs of insecurity.