Its really quite simple.. All of the Arab citizens of the mandated area became Jordanian citizens by law in 1928.
See
Citizenship and the State in the Middle East, p. 210.
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In 1949, the Jordanian Council of Ministers added an article to their Citizenship Law of 1928 that read
All those who at the time when this Law goes into effect habitually reside in Transjordan or in the Western part [of the Jordan] which is being administered by [the Kingdom], and who were holders of Palestinian citizenship, shall be deemed as Jordanians enjoying all rights of Jordanians and bearing all the attendant obligations.
— [14]
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As I further investigate this issue, I found this which is the moment when the Jordanian king stripped the disputed territory pali's of their Jordanian citizenship.
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The implementation of the Jordanian disengagement from the West Bank is regulated by the Statement of the Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid-al-Rifai of 20 August 1988.Article (2) of the statement stipulates that:"Every person residing in the West Bank before 31 July 1988 is considered a Palestinian, not a Jordanian citizen."However, there was no State of Palestine to issue Palestinian citizenship in lieu of the nullified Jordanian citizenship; the State of Palestine exists only on paper. Thus the mass population of the West Bank was transformed overnight by a Royal Decree of fakk al-irtibatinto a stateless population. In the name of Arab unity of course.Until the dismantling of the legal and administrative links with the West bank in 1988, there was one universal Jordanian citizenship under the Jordanian Citizenship Law for all Jordanians throughout the Kingdom (including the Palestinian population in the Israeli-occupied West Bank). With the Royal Decree of dismantling the links, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ceded sovereignty to a fiction, a non-existent State of Palestine, and thereby stripped the Jordanian citizenship of all Palestinians whose registered ordinary residence is the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, making them stateless. Under the terms of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-government Arrangements signed by the Government of Israel and the PLO five years later in September 1993, Palestinian citizenship will not come into existence before 1998, if at all (1997, 76).
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OK so lets see what happened in 1998 and if that pali citizenship actually materialized
See
Citizenship and the State in the Middle East, p. 210.
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In 1949, the Jordanian Council of Ministers added an article to their Citizenship Law of 1928 that read
All those who at the time when this Law goes into effect habitually reside in Transjordan or in the Western part [of the Jordan] which is being administered by [the Kingdom], and who were holders of Palestinian citizenship, shall be deemed as Jordanians enjoying all rights of Jordanians and bearing all the attendant obligations.
— [14]
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As I further investigate this issue, I found this which is the moment when the Jordanian king stripped the disputed territory pali's of their Jordanian citizenship.
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The implementation of the Jordanian disengagement from the West Bank is regulated by the Statement of the Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid-al-Rifai of 20 August 1988.Article (2) of the statement stipulates that:"Every person residing in the West Bank before 31 July 1988 is considered a Palestinian, not a Jordanian citizen."However, there was no State of Palestine to issue Palestinian citizenship in lieu of the nullified Jordanian citizenship; the State of Palestine exists only on paper. Thus the mass population of the West Bank was transformed overnight by a Royal Decree of fakk al-irtibatinto a stateless population. In the name of Arab unity of course.Until the dismantling of the legal and administrative links with the West bank in 1988, there was one universal Jordanian citizenship under the Jordanian Citizenship Law for all Jordanians throughout the Kingdom (including the Palestinian population in the Israeli-occupied West Bank). With the Royal Decree of dismantling the links, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ceded sovereignty to a fiction, a non-existent State of Palestine, and thereby stripped the Jordanian citizenship of all Palestinians whose registered ordinary residence is the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, making them stateless. Under the terms of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-government Arrangements signed by the Government of Israel and the PLO five years later in September 1993, Palestinian citizenship will not come into existence before 1998, if at all (1997, 76).
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OK so lets see what happened in 1998 and if that pali citizenship actually materialized
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