H.D.S. Greenway
"WELCOME TO the Allenby Bridge crossing point," says the sign flanked by Israeli flags as you leave Jordan and enter the occupied West Bank. The Jordanians call it the King Hussein Bridge, after the present king's father, but the Israelis have kept to the old name for Field Marshall Sir Edmund Allenby, the British general who drove out the Ottoman ... (Full article: 742 words)
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