Jordan IS Palestine, no?

Submitted by john7 (United States), Mar 6, 2012 at 17:39

I thought that Jordan was created by the British Empire, called Trans-Jordan and was over half of the territory awarded to the Arabs and Jews living in the region during the partition. Correct me if I am wrong.

http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/Graphics/Maps/PartitionforTransJordan.asp

THE DIVISION OF THE MANDATE FOR PALESTINE

In 1923 the British "chopped off" 75% of the proposed Jewish Palestinian homeland to form an Arab Palestinian Nation of "Trans-Jordan," meaning "across the Jordan River." The Palestinian Arabs now had THEIR homeland... the remaining 25% of the original Palestinian territory (west of the Jordan River) was to be the Jewish Palestinian homeland.

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