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Thread #117493   Message #2550315
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
27-Jan-09 - 02:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
If that is what you meant, you are still historically wrong. Until 1921 what is now Jordan was a part of Palestine, which was given to the Hashimis as Trans-Jordan.

The Hashimites, who came from outside Jordan, became rulers of a Palestinian peoples. So it is not entirely incorrect to think of Jordan as a Palestinian homeland. The difference, of course, is that those Palestinians who lived in Trans-Jordan in 1921 became Jordanian and their brothers, sisters and cousins remained in the remnant of Palestine.

The majority of those kicked out of Jordan in the '70s were those who crossed over from the West Bank when it was under Jordanian control.

If Jordan, an overwhelmingly Palestine population can exist, so too should an Israel be allowed to exist as an overwhelmingly Jewish country.