Teribus: "Psst, Nickhere - It was never part of Jordan either was it? While Israel might have had a tenuous claim to it, Jordan had none whatsoever"

Israel has no 'tenuous' claim to it either. It has no claim to it, period.

I didn't protest about Jordan occupying Transjordan back in the early 70s cos I wasn't much into politics those days, being too young to take much interest in such matters. I didn't raise much of a stink when Rome occupied Palestine either, come to think of it. My sin, I guess.

But I can and should take an interest in what's happening today. And what Israel is doing in the West Bank today is wrong, and a major contributing factor to the instability in the region. You see Israel says it wants stability and peace, and probably it does, but not until it's annexed all the land it thinks should belong to it first. As one Israeli PM said many moons ago "Our borders are where our armies stop".

And we see the result.