Wasfi at-Tall

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Wasfi at-Tall

Wasfi Mustafa Wahbi Salih al-Mustafa at-Tall ( Arabic وصفي مصطفى وهبي صالح المصطفى التل, DMG Waṣfī Muṣṭafā Wahbī Ṣāliḥ al-Muṣṭafā at-Tall ; also al-Tal ; * 1919 in Irbid , Jordan ; † November 28, 1971 in Cairo ) was Prime Minister of Jordan three times (January 28, 1962 to March 27, 1963, February 14, 1965 to March 4, 1967 and October 28, 1970 to November 28, 1971). Tal was born in Irbid in 1919 and served in the British Army during World War II.

Political career

Wasfi at-Tall received a Western-oriented education and graduated from the AUB in Beirut . His political career began in the resistance against Zionism and the establishment of the state of Israel in the 1940s. During the Palestine War he served as an officer with the rank of captain in the headquarters of Iraqi General Ismail Safwat in Damascus , which was supposed to coordinate the war effort of the Arab armies.

He was a member of the leadership circle of the Hashemite kingdom. At-Tall has held the post of Prime Minister of Jordan three times. From January 1962 to March 1963 he tried as Prime Minister to win the Palestinian people as loyal subjects of the kingdom. He formulated a plan for the liberation of the Palestinian territories through a limited war in which Jordan should play a central role. The representation of the Palestinians should be carried out by the Jordanian Kingdom. This strategy failed with the establishment of the PLO as a representation of the Palestinians and a paramilitary organization. At-Tall was also Prime Minister from February 1965 to March 1967. He tried to curb the increasing influence of the PLO guerrillas in Jordan, sponsored by other Arab states, in order to avoid a conflict with Israel that would cost Jordan a lot of money. He was finally deposed as Prime Minister in 1967, but appointed head of the court. During the Six Day War he supported a coup by a group around Salim Hatum in Syria because he believed the Ba'athist government in the neighboring country was a danger to the kingdom. Like the previous attempt in 1966, the coup failed. A few days after the Six Day War, at-Tall resigned as head of the court and was subsequently appointed senator, but initially removed from the kingdom's inner circle of power.

He was reappointed Prime Minister in October 1970 during the Jordanian Civil War . During his tenure, the Jordanian state drove the PLO, which was rebelling against it, out of the country. At-Tall was murdered in Cairo in 1971 by terrorists from the Palestinian organization Black September . The four terrorists were represented by the PLO General Secretary Akhmed Schukairi (1908–1980) before the Egyptian court and were not punished.

During his career he also held diplomatic posts in Bonn , Tehran and Baghdad .

He was buried in Amman on November 29, 1971.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Avi Shlaim: Israel and Palestine. London, 2009, pp. 93-103
  2. ^ Benny Morris: 1948 - A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven, 2008, p. 187
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Avange Rebel's Death . In: The Deseret News , November 29, 1971. Retrieved December 15, 2012. 
personal data
SURNAME Tall, Wasfi at-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tall, Wasfi Mustafa Wahbi Salih al-Mustafa at-; وصفي مصطفى وهبي صالح المصطفى التل
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Irbid , Jordan
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1971
Place of death Cairo