 Habes al @-@ Majali is quoted as the only Arab commander to have defeated the Israelis in 1948 and who restored a little honour to the Arabs . By his version of events , he would even have caught Ariel Sharon in the course of the battle and it is Colonel Ashton ( his British superior from 3rd Brigade ) would have forbidden him to use the artillery against the Burma road , action by which he could have prevented its construction . After the war , he was appointed bodyguard of Abdallah and in 1957 Chief @-@ of @-@ Staff of the Jordanian army . He became Jordanian Minister of Defence in 1967 . 
