Jordanian Post Palestian Refugees - 1969

 

JORDANIAN POST in December 1969 issued an unusually large set of postage stamps, to be precise 60 stamps! Shown here are nine of those stamps. The issue commemorated two closely related experiences, which together form one of the most politically sensitive topics in Jordanian history: the memory of the defeat in the 1948 war against Israel and the problem of Palestinian refugees, hundreds of thousands of whom fled to Jordan during the war, following which the term Nakba (e.g. catastrophe) was coined, denoting the disaster that the Palestinians experienced.