Collusion across the Jordan
Subtitle: King Abdullah, the Zionist movement, and the partition of Palestine
By: Avi Shlaim.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
Subjects: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Israel -- Foreign relations -- Jordan; Jordan -- Foreign relations -- Israel; Palestine -- History -- Partition, 1947
Description: Tells the story of the unusual and highly secret relationship between Abdullah, the Hashemite ruler of Jordan, and the Zionist movement. It spans three decades from 1921 to 1951 and focuses in particular on the clandestine dilomacy and the poliltical and military processes which determined the fate of Palestine between 1947 and 1950, and which left the Palestinian Arabs without a homeland.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [643]-651.
Includes index.