The "Palestine" many refer to is limited to approximately 23% of the original mandated Palestine, after 77% of Palestine was ceded to the rule of the Sheriff of Mecca, so creating the new state of Transjordan. The original territory of Mandated Palestine was described by the League of Nations as;
" The British Mandate for Palestine, shortly Mandate for Palestine, or the Palestine Mandate was a League of Nations mandate for the territory that had formerly constituted the Ottoman Empire sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the Southern part of the Vilayet of Syria,[1] the Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet, and the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, prior to the Armistice of Mudros'.
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Original Palestine mandate territory 1920.
Remaining Palestine mandate territory
1922, after Britain ceded all to the east of the Jordan River to the Sheriff of Mecca, so creating the new state of
Transjordan.
In fact;
Palestine and Jordan are one
said King Abdullah of Jordan in 1948.
Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate, Prince Hassan of the Jordanian National Assembly, February 2, 1970.
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.Jordanians and Palestinians are considered by the PLO as one people, said Farouk Kaddoumi, then head of the PLO Political Department. ( Newsweek, March 14, 1977.)
The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture. said Abdul Hamid Sharif, (Prime Minister of Jordan) in 1980.
The truth is that
Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan said King Hussein of Jordan in 1981.