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The Battle of Karameh was one of the main events in the history of the Palestinian national movement. The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ...
In 1968, the city of Karameh served as the political and military headquarters of the Palestinian al-Fatah movement. Israeli military forces entered the city in search of the Palestinian leadership, which the Israelis labelled as terrorists. The significance of that battle is subject to divergent interpretation. Supporters of the Palestinians characterize it as an event in which the heavily armed and technologically advanced Israeli military was rebuffed and forced to retreat, suffering a blow to their reputation while heartening the Palestinian resistance to Israel. For the Palestinians, therefore, Karameh was seen not as a victory in battle, but survival against overwhelming odds - an event that placed Palestinians back on the political map. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Al Karameh (or simply Karameh) is a town in Jordan, near the Allenby Bridge which spans the Jordan River, which defines the border with territory controlled by Israel. ...
The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ...
Fatah (Arabic: الفتح) al_fatah—an reverse acronym from arabic words Harakat alTahrir alwatani alFilastini (literally: the movement for liberation of the Palestinian homeland)—is a Palestinian faction founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat who, until his death, was head of the Palestinian Authority. ...
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Supporters of Israel, by contrast, characterize the battle as a successful operation in which the number of terrorists killed outweighed the number of Israeli soldiers killed. Political experts uninvolved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have expressed a third view, that the battle was "a conflict with limited military importance" which has since been blown up and exaggerated to an almost mythological level by both sides.[1]
The Battle of Karameh set up a series of events leading to Black September in Jordan, in which King Hussein ordered the Jordanian army to crush the emboldened Palestinian forces. This article, Black September in Jordan, describes the events surrounding September, 1970 in Jordan. ...
Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: ; November 14, 1935 – February 7, 1999) was the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 1952 to 1999. ...
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Abu Iyad Salah Khalaf (Arabic ØµÙ„Ø§Ø Ø®Ù„Ù), also known as Abu Iyad (Arabic أبو إياد) (born 1933 – January 14, 1991) was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat. ...
This article, Black September in Jordan, describes the events surrounding September, 1970 in Jordan. ...
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External links - Pro-Palestinian account of the Battle of Al Karameh
- Pro-Israeli, Jewish Agency for Israel Timeline for 1968
Additional sources - ↑ W. Andrew Terrill, "The Political Mythology of the Battle of Karameh," The Middle East Journal, Winter 2001, Volume 55, Number 1
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