[aimhigh]

Good post. One has to ask: If the Palestinians are rightfully due to have their own state, then why didn't Jordan give them one during the 19 years they controled the West Bank?

[traditionalist]

A lot of inaccuracies in this article. The Balfour Declaration only declared that the Jewish national home would be IN Palestine, not that it would encompass the entire area of Palestine.

Jewish soveriegnty of the entire area west of the Jordan River was never internationally recognized, not in 1948 and not today. To this day Israel itself does not claim the West Bank to be its sovereign territory.

[Alouette]

If the Palestinians are rightfully due to have their own state, then why didn't Jordan give them one during the 19 years they controled the West Bank?

Because they didn't want a "state of their own", they wanted what the Jews had.

The British carved up and distributed the Ottoman Empire to sundry "allies" in the Arab world. They gave the Arabian peninsula to the Saud robber gang, and when the Hashemites demanded their share of the booty, the British then gave them 80% of the "Jewish National Homeland" for a consolation prize.