Kingmakers by Shareen Blair Brysac
Author:Shareen Blair Brysac
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-09-25T04:00:00+00:00
EIGHT
“A Splendid Little Army”
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha) (1897–1986), KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC
A Jewish State of Palestine
If you do it
You’ll rue it
An Arab State of Palestine?
Hardly a proposition
When you consider the opposition
Federation?
What situation?
Follows separation[?]
A Divorce[,] of Course
Partition
To partite and be neighbourly
Is far less labourly
Than putting up with banditry
And blaming the mandatory
—John Glubb, Rhymes on the Report
of the Anglo-American Commission (ca. 1946)
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