The most commendable homage. though. which was paid to the King was given by a columnist when he said that Hussein personifies Jordans independence. for he wants to make his country a model democracy and to bring a better life and opportunity to his people by using the monarchy as an instrument for progress through evolution. Jordan is poor in natural resources. There is little water to irrigate the vast desert tracts. Furthermore. the population is divided among Bedouins who rove the countryside in search of pasturelands. urbanities. and Palestinian refugees. whose wish is to recover their former lands in what is now Israel. Since 1946. though. when Great Britain terminated its mandate and granted to Jordan full independence. this desert state has struggled against these negative and diversifying factors to progress from a backward tribal nation to a unified one in the throes of modernization and industrialization. The capital.
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