What is "jordanian"

Usage examples of "jordanian".

Although we should not be blase about the prospects for any of the moderate Arabs, the state that we must be most concerned about is Jordan, which is dependent on exports of Iraqi oil and Iraqi imports of Jordanian goods.

Their raids on Israel brought about Israeli retaliations, which created tensions between the Palestinians and Lebanese and Palestinians and Jordanians.

Bunkers and houses were taken two or three times as one paratroop platoon after another fought its way through the breach and the Jordanians moved back through the trenches into the houses, which came to have names of their own for the paratroopers: the house of the burning roof, the house with the pillars, the house of the yard.

In Iraq, the road would stretch from the Jordanian border through Ar Rutbah to Tulayah near An Najaf, then to the southern Iraqi town of Ash Shaykh ash Shuyukh, and finally to the Kuwaiti border at Safwan.

Younis not only boasted of his role in the Royal Jordanian skyjacking but also his part in the TWA one in which a US Navy diver died.

I wandered into the White House kitchen to eat whatever free food was lying around, and I saw Abbas Amal, the Jordanian chef, opening cans of Spam.

Convincing the Gulf states to provide Jordan with large amounts of heavily discounted oil, and possibly a market for Jordanian goods, is not going to be easy.

He has a Jordanian passport but Gallagher says he is or was Palestinian.

Unlike the Jordanian government, the Tunisian and Algerian regimes have attempted to suppress Islamic groups.

Like the GCC states, the Jordanians at least want the United States to wait until the Arab-Israeli peace process is back on track, if Washington is determined to mount a military operation against Iraq.

Especially if Iraq's logistical capabilities were revived by this time, such circumstances would probably allow the Republican Guard and several of the regular army's heavy divisions to invade and defeat the Kuwaiti, Saudi, and possibly even Jordanian or Syrian militaries.

Thus, in the case of Jordan, someone would to have to provide it with roughly $500 million in free and discounted oil, as well as make up for the loss of $900 million in trade, including $683 million worth of Jordanian exports to Iraq.

Even then it is an open question whether Jordan would go along with such a plan because of the threat that Iraq might try to destabilize the Jordanian regime by stirring up its Palestinian population or employing its intelligence personnel in a covert action campaign against the king's government.

It wasn't until after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Unit 300 was a key to turning back King Hussein's Royal Jordanian Army on the West Bank, that the IDF and the Unit 300 leader Mohammed Mullah formed an elite Druze reconnaissance splinter group, known as Sayeret Ha'Druzim.

The CIA was subsidizing the Jordanian service to the tune of millions of dollars a year.