
Jordan is the Arab state in palestine
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League of Nations: The Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922
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Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917
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So actually you'd have to prove that what is now the area of Jordan wasn't in the mandated area of palestine previous to Nov 2nd 1917, and since Jordan or Trans-Jordan as it was called on its inception didn't even exist at that time you're going to have a pretty hard time.
Transjordan was created after June 3 1922 and didn't achieve full independence from the Uk until April 18 1946
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The Avalon Project : British White Paper of June 1922
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With reference to the Constitution which it is now intended to establish in Palestine, the draft of which has already been published, it is desirable to make certain points clear. In the first place, it is not the case, as has been represented by the Arab Delegation, that during the war His Majesty's Government gave an undertaking that an independent national government should be at once established in Palestine. This representation mainly rests upon a letter dated the 24th October, 1915, from Sir Henry McMahon, then His Majesty's High Commissioner in Egypt, to the Sharif of Mecca, now King Hussein of the Kingdom of the Hejaz. That letter is quoted as conveying the promise to the Sherif of Mecca to recognise and support the independence of the Arabs within the territories proposed by him. But this promise was given subject to a reservation made in the same letter, which excluded from its scope, among other territories, the portions of Syria lying to the west of the District of Damascus. This reservation has always been regarded by His Majesty's Government as covering the vilayet of Beirut and the independent Sanjak of Jerusalem. The whole of Palestine west of the Jordan was thus excluded from Sir. Henry McMahon's pledge.
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The Near East Since the First World War: A History to 1995
There really can be no doubt that Jordan was carved out of palestine and that its inhabitants were palestinian. the multiple references also confirms that at the time of the white letter there was no state of Transjordan
The British mandate was intended to put into effect the declaration originally made on Nov 2 1917
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The Avalon Project : The Palestine Mandate
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Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country;
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The Mandate itself was accepted on July 24 1922 and defined the area of the British mandate as including the area now known as Jordan.
But the Trans-Jordan memorandum wasn't accepted by the league of nations until Sep 16 1922 such that this particular area of the British mandate was specifically excluded for use as part of a national Jewish homeland
See article 25 British mandate for palestine
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Article 25.
In the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined, the Mandatory shall be entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions, and to make such provision for the administration of the territories as he may consider suitable to those conditions, provided that no action shall be taken which is inconsistent with the provisions of Articles 15, 16 and 18.
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League of Nations Official Journal, Nov. 1922, pp. 1390–1391
Kinda puts an end to that nonsense now doesn't it Monty.
The British mandate was ratified two months BEFORE the Trans-Jordan memorandum and the British mandate legally refers back to 1915 concerning the preference for a Jewish national homeland in palestine
Ergo Trans-Jordan was carved out of the British mandate exactly as I've been saying all along ;--) and is in fact palestine.
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