Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

The displaced persons had survived the war, but they were desperate, and immigration became an ever more pressing issue. When UNRRA did a poll of the Jewish refugees, 96.8 percent said that they wanted to go to Palestine. The United States pressured Britain to back off the prohibition on land sales and to allow one hundred thousand Jews to enter Pa

This was done purely to try to cast doubt on Israel’s legitimacy despite the desperate need in some underpopulated Arab countries, such as Syria and Jordan, for more workers to serve the labor-intensive economic needs of those nations.

Doubts about U.S. reliability have multiplied under the Trump administration, thanks to its withdrawal from numerous international pacts, its conditional approach to once-sacrosanct U.S. alliance commitments in Europe and Asia, its distancing from several partners in the Middle East, and the gap…

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But the last thing Jordan wanted in 1994 was responsibility for the millions of Palestinians then living in the West Bank, especially after the aborted Palestinian civil war led by the PLO against King Hussein in 1970.