Plus, on a map Jordan has the shape of an Arab riding a camel at a fast pace.
So there’s that, too!
But India still has the world’s third largest Muslim population (at 200 million not far #1 Indonesia’s 231 million), with a higher percentage of Muslims (14%) than the US’s African-American population.
As a matter of fact, a big part of ancient Israel was in what’s now Jordan.
Two of twelve ancient tribes of Israel were given land in Transjordan. Baptism of Jesus actually happen on the Jordan’s shore of the Jordan river.
River of Jordan is not a huge river, it is more a big creek. It can be easily forded and it does not provide any major natural obstacle. In history, the two sides of the river were more-less united.
WIKI
During World War I, Transjordan saw much of the fighting of the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule. Assisted by the British army officer T. E. Lawrence, the Sharif of Mecca Hussein bin Ali led the successful revolt which contributed to the Ottoman defeat and breaking up of its empire. Ottoman forces were forced to withdraw from Aqaba in 1917 after the Battle of Aqaba. In 1918 the British Foreign Office noted the Arab position East of the Jordan, Biger wrote: “At the beginning of 1918, soon after the southern part of Palestine was conquered, the Foreign Office determined that Faisal’s authority over the area that he controls on the Eastern side of the Jordan river should be recognized. We can confirm this recognition of ours even if our forces do not currently control major parts of Transjordan.’”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan
The Arabs liberated the area of Jordan from the Turks and they insisted on running it.
WIKI
After the withdrawal of British forces from Palestine at the end of 14 May 1948, Arab states entered the areas of Mandatory Palestine earmarked by the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of 29 November 1947 for an independent Arab state, meant to be established alongside a Jewish state. These forces were under the command of King Abdullah I of Jordan. The Jordanian Arab Legion successfully took control of the Old City of Jerusalem and also covering a significant portion of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, including cities such as Jericho, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, and others. Following the end of hostilities, the area that remained under Jordanian control became known as the West Bank.
During the December 1948 Jericho Conference, hundreds of Palestinian notables in the West Bank gathered, accepted Jordanian rule and recognized Abdullah as ruler. The West Bank was formally annexed on 24 April 1950, but the annexation was widely considered as illegal and void by most of the international community. A month afterwards, the Arab League, having received assurances from Jordan, resolved to treat the annexed area as being held in trust until the Palestine question was resolved. Recognition of Jordan’s declaration of annexation was granted by the United Kingdom, the United States, Iraq, and possibly Pakistan, and no objections were raised when Jordan was admitted to the United Nations in 1955.
When Jordan transferred its full citizenship rights to the residents of the West Bank, the annexation more than tripled the population of Jordan, going from 400,000 to 1,300,000. The naturalized Palestinians enjoyed equal opportunities in all sectors of the state without discrimination, and they were given half of the seats of the Jordanian parliament. After Jordan lost the West Bank to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, the Palestinians there remained Jordanian citizens until Jordan renounced claims to and severed administrative ties with the territory in 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank
King Abdullah I of Jordan did a land grab of the West Bank after the British left Palestine.
when Jordan was created with land from British Mandate Palestine following the same model as the India-Pakistan partition.
I am surprised when so many people who I thought were educated have no clue about that.
However I have not heard that Jordan has opened their arms to their long lost cousins...
Finally someone speaking about this. Some interesting facts about Jordan, it was composed of territories and tribes who all had some relation to ancient Israel and/or Abraham. Today it is something like 35% Christian. ‘Palestine’ was a territory, not a country and not a governing body. The writer is correct about the British Mandate. They partitioned it to MAKE the two state solution. Now ‘palestinians’ want both parts.
If there was no Six-Day War Gaza would be ruled by Egypt and the West Bank by Jordan.
Palestinian Arabs would be governed by Egypt, Jordan or Israel and all would have decent to good government.
The only grievances Palestinian Arabs would have would be confined to land and housing abandoned in the 1948 conflict.
A “Two-State Solution” assumes there would be decent Palestinian Arab government. There is no evidence that is likely given the long history of thuggish/corrupt Palestinian Arab governance.
Oct 7 showed they cannot depend on IDF to get there in time, if the Pali’s attack without warning using caches of stored weapons.
I don’t think Israel will have a choice: they must universally arm the Jewish population, who must keep their weapons with them in their homes rather than in communal armories, and must have CCW.
The only reason the Hasimites of Jordan don’t want the “Palestinians” is that lot has been taught to worship death.
A goood intellectual property lawsuit could tie the Mullahs up for years and years.
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In 1921 the UK created the Emirate of Transjordan (Jordan) in the land of Mandatory Palestine
Not quite. Mandatory Palestine already existed as of 1920. Transjordan was not brought under British administration as part of the Mandate of Palestine until 1921 after the Cairo Conference, and even then matters of administration between Palestine and Transjordan were treated differently de facto (and de jure, insofar as questions of Jewish settlement were concerned).
(Also, notwithstanding the conflicting censuses and population surveys throughout the 19th century, the matter of which religious/ethnic demographic constituted a majority in a Jerusalem becomes a lot less impressive when said surveys seemingly show modern Jerusalem not cracking 50,000 people until after World War I.)
Absolutely and the King of Jordan following the 1948 war formally annexed the West Bank (1950). It would have remained part of Jordan had not the Arab states renewed hostilities with Israel in 1967, after which, for security reasons, Israel occupied parts of the West Bank. What really ended any “unity” among the Arabs of Palestine over any “two state” solution was the civil war Arafat started with Jordan in an attempt to have the PLO replace the Hashement rulers of Jordan. That more or less severed any chance of outright political ties joining Jordan with the Arabs of the West Bank.
What has been the worst thing for the Arabs of Palestine? They have consitently had the worst political leaders possible, always preferrring war over sheer economoic progress and cooperation with Israel.