Abdallah ar-Rimawi

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Abdallah ar-Rimawi ( Arabic عبد الله الريماوي, DMG ʿAbd Allāh ar-Rīmāwī ), also Abdullah al-Rimawi (* around 1920 in Beit Rima near Ramallah , Palestine ) is a former pan-Arab politician of Palestinian origin and brief foreign minister of Jordan .

Foreign Minister Rimawi (left) at Nasser (1957)

Early years

After completing his studies in mathematics and physics at the American University in Beirut with cum laude , ar-Rimawi returned to Palestine in 1940 and initially worked for the school authorities in Nablus , Jaffa , Tulkarm and Ramallah . As a professor of natural sciences, he went to Jerusalem in 1945 and studied law there until 1951.

As a result of the UN resolution on partition and the subsequent Palestine War , he first joined the movement of the Palestinian nationalist Mohammed Amin al-Husseini in 1948 and published the magazine Palestine in Ramallah . Together with the Palestinians Abdullah an-Nawas and Bahjat Abu Gharbiyah as well as the Jordanian Abdullah at-Tal, he then founded a Jordanian regional branch of the Baath party in Jerusalem in 1952 , and became its general secretary in 1954. As a prosecutor of Ramallah, he moved into the Jordanian parliament for the Ba'ath in September 1956 and joined the left-liberal coalition of Prime Minister Sulaimān an-Nābulusī . Since the Suez Crisis in 1956 Minister of Foreign Affairs, pursued al-Rimawi one the model of the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and against oriented the Baghdad Pact looking positive neutralist or pan-Arab course until the fall of al-Nabulsi in April 1957. (At the same time was with Salah ad-Din al-Bitar also a Baathist Foreign Minister in Syria.) The greatest foreign policy success of the al-Nabulsi government - and thus above all a success of ar-Rimawi - was the termination of the British-Jordanian treaty on March 14, 1957, as a result of the Withdrawal of British troops, which had been occupying Jordan for 40 years, began.

Rimawi group against Aflaqists

Accused of conspiracy against King Hussein of Jordan , he fled to Syria , which had led the Ba'ath Party into a union with Nasser's Egypt in 1958. The condition for the union, however, was the dissolution of the Syrian regional Ba'ath party , which led to internal disputes and ultimately to a split in the party. While the party founders around Michel Aflaq , Salah ad-Din al-Bitar and Akram al-Haurani, who were soon disappointed by the Union , fled to Beirut in August 1959 and worked from there towards a re-secession of Syria from the Union, ar-Rimawi, Gharbiyah and some became other Nasserists (on charges of financial embezzlement) expelled in September from the Ba'ath party that still exists in Lebanon and other Arab regions.

The “Rimawi Group” then formed a “Revolutionary National Command of the Baath Party” sponsored by Nasser in Damascus in May 1960, which rivaled the “Aflaqist” national command in Beirut in vain for the all-Arab party leadership and in August 1960 gave itself a new party program . The former general secretary of the Iraqi regional Ba'ath party, Fuad ar-Rikabi , also joined this rival national command , but when the Union collapsed in 1961, the Rimawi group had to flee from Syria to Egypt. Unlike ar-Rikabi, ar-Rimawi stayed in Egypt for the next few years, gave revolutionary lectures and speeches directed against the Baathists in Syria and Iraq and against King Hussein on Radio Cairo and wrote political treatises. Under the impression of the successful Ba'ath revolutions in Iraq (February 8, 1963) and in Syria (March 8, 1963), the Rimawi group intensified its revolutionary actions again in Jordan, but without the support of the entire Ba'ath party an overthrow did not occur conditions.

In July 1970, on the eve of Black September 1970, ar-Rimawi was allowed to return to Jordan. Once again he moved into the (purely consultative) parliament until April 1978, this time as a “loyal opposition” to the king.

Works

  • 1961: al-mautiq al-thawri li'l-haraka al-qawmiyya al-'arabiyya al-haditha (The Revolutionary Logic of the Modern Arab Nationalist Movement)
  • 1964: al-haraka al-'arabiyya al-wahida (The Arab Unity Movement)
  • 1970: al-iqlimiya al-jadida (The New Regionality)

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paragraph about Abdullah al-Rimawi on a website about Beit Reema (Arabic)
personal data
SURNAME Rimawi, Abdallah ar-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reemawi, Abdullah al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Beit Rima near Ramallah , Palestine