Quote:The Emirate of Transjordan (Arabic: إمارة شرق الأردن ʾImārat Sharq al-ʾUrdun) was a former Ottoman territory incorporated into the British Mandate of Palestine in 1921 as an autonomous political division under as-Sayyid Abdullah bin al-Husayn
TransjordanAnything not clear for you there? Do you know what incorporated means? Something can't be incorporated into something if it was "originally" part of it, as you insist on claiming.
Quote:Transjordanian independence 25 May 1946
Yes full independance was granted in 1946, but it was made autonomous in 1922, and was NEVER administered as part of the mandate of Palestine. It had it's own seperate administrative capital in Ma'an from the day it was INCORPORATED into the existing mandate for Palestine.
Quote:In May 1923 Transjordan was granted a degree of independence with Abdullah as ruler and Harry St. John Philby as chief representative.
Quote:Transjordan remained under British control until the first Anglo-Jordanian treaty was concluded in 1928. Transjordan became nominally independent although the British still maintain a military presence, control of foreign affairs and retained some financial control over the kingdom.
Also in 1937 the British Peel Commission proposed the first partition plan for Palestine (there was no Transjordan in the map) and it consisted of an Arab state and a Jewish state within Palestine (West of the Jordan), which just further renders your argument as a load of regurgitated Bovine faeces, indicating that in 1937 (at least) the British were talking about West of the Jordan as Palestine only, and were proposing to partition it into a large Arab state with a small Jewish 'homeland' in the north.
Also note that the mandate of Transjordan is marked as Transjordan, by 1937 (actually well before, since 1922 it was already autonomous from the BMP).
Anyway even at the end of all this Grendel, the argument still doesn't do anything to the situation of the Palestinians. They are from WEST of the Jordan river, and their land was taken from them, that's what they're fighting for. Saying they already got 75% of an arbitrary border on a map (which was mostly just drawn up to give the British an oil pipeline from Iraq to the Palestinian mediterranean coast) means nothing. As I mentioned to you before, it's like giving all of Victoria to the Muslims, then kicking the Victorians out and saying you got 75% of the Eastern seaboard, stop complaining. It's just ridiculous. the Palestinians didn't get Jordan, this is the first point. Second point is, their homes aren't in Jordan, they're in Palestine, and Palestine is WEST of the Jordan, not east of it.
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