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The former rial strategists uprooted the Hashemite now seems more than likely to fragment dynasty from its native Arabian soil and transplanted it to Jordan, an entity carved into its ethnic and linguistic parts, and the out of Britain's original Palestine Man- latter is by no means secure. date. Nor did all such cases follow on the heels of World War I. An exhausted Britain This sentence tells us most of what we withdrew in 1947 from both the Indian need to know to understand the high-wire subcontinent and its Palestine Mandate. In act that Jordan's King Hussein has been Asia, two new states, India and Pakistan, performing for nearly 40 years. The de- were created, joined by a third in 1971 scendant of an alien dynasty, ruling over a when East Pakistan won its independence country invented by a European power as Bangladesh. In the Middle East, Israel and inhabited by a population (now pre- was established-by the British, by the dominantly Palestinian) that owes him United Nations, and finally, following re- none of the traditional allegiance monar- jection by its Arab neighbors, by the force chies are built upon, the king has some- of its own arms. In both regions.-, the re- how managed to survive in per- suits were the same: the creation haps the most dangerous region of essentially artificial states con- on Earth. 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