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At the end of hostilities. Jordanian troops were in control of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. In response to the establishment of an Egyptian-backed Arab Government in Gaza in September 1948,Cheap Jordan Shoes, King Abdullah proclaimed himself King of All Palestine. In April 1950 he formally annexed the territory, despite paying lip service to Arab declarations backing Palestinian independence and expressly ruling out territorial annexations. The new Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan won immediate recognition from the governments of Britain and the US. However, the first wave of Palestinian refugees virtually doubled Jordan’s population.
King Abdullah was assassinated outside Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in July 1951. His son Talal ruled for a year, before his grandson Hussein was proclaimed king, finally ascending to the throne in 1953. In 1956,Hussein sacked Glubb Pasha (by then Chief of Staff of the Jordanian Army). After elections that year, the newly formed Jordanian government broke ties with the UK, and the last British troops left Jordan by mid-1957.Hussein then staged a coup against his government,Air Jordan Shoes, partly because it had tried to open a dialogue w ith the Soviet Union.
With the (temporary) union of Egypt and Syria in 1958. King Hussein feared for his own position and tried a federation with his Hashemite cousins in Iraq. This lasted less than a year because the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown,Retro Jordans, and British troops were sent in to Jordan to protect Hussein.
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