Abdullah at-Tall

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Abdullah at-Tall ( Arabic عبد الله التل, DMG ʿAbd Allāh at-Tall ; also Al valley ; * in Irbid ; † 1973) was a Transjordan lieutenant colonel in the Arab Legion . As commander of the legionary forces in Jerusalem, he was involved in the 1948 Palestine War.

Abdullah at-Tall, 1948

Life

In the course of the pan-Arab invasion with the aim of destroying the emerging state of Israel, the Arab Legion advanced across the Jordan from the east . King Abdallah ibn Husain I had basically not planned for the troops to intervene in Jerusalem, but was then convinced by Palestinian notables in the city. The command went to the Legion's 6th Battalion, under at-Tall's command. at-Tall and his troops succeeded in effectively defending the predominantly Arab old town and cutting off the Jewish quarter within the old town and forcing it to give up. This ended the fighting in the city, except for artillery fire and the occasional pinprick.

Abdullah at-Tall in negotiations with David Shaltiel , 1948

Abdullah at-Tall was installed by King Abdallah ibn Hussein I as military governor in East Jerusalem and was involved in secret ceasefire talks with Israeli envoys.

After the assassination of the Jordanian king Abdallah, at-Tall was sentenced to death in absentia on charges of having been involved in the conspiracy to assassinate the head of state. at-Tall had already left for Cairo before the attack . at-Tall published reports on the armistice negotiations in his memoirs and criticized the king in the spirit of Arab nationalism for his allegedly too conciliatory position towards Israel during the war.

at-Tall was pardoned in 1967 and accepted an administrative post in Amman .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Tal: War in Palestine, 1948: strategy and diplomacy , New York, 2004, pp. 213–215
  2. ^ A b Philip Robins: A History of Jordan , Cambridge, 2004, p. 188
  3. ↑ Itimar Rabinovich: Israel in the Middle East , Lebanon (NH), 2008, p 116ff
personal data
SURNAME Tall, Abdullah at-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tal, Abdullah al-; عبد الله التل (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian officer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Irbid
DATE OF DEATH 1973