Jordan - Transjordan a theft of Jewish territory

Jordan - Transjordan a theft of Jewish territory

Israel Arab Conflict History

How did the Arab territory of Transjordan come into being?

The 1922 White Paper (also called the Churchill White Paper) was the first official manifesto interpreting the Balfour Declaration. It was issued on June 3, 1922, after investigation of the 1921 disturbances. Although the White Paper stated that the Balfour Declaration could not be amended and that the Jews were in Palestine by right, in violation of international treaties, it partitioned the area of the Mandate for Palestine by excluding the area east of the Jordan River from Jewish legally allocated historical land. That land, 78% of the original Palestine Mandate land, was renamed Transjordan and was given to the Emir Abdullah by the British.

The White Paper (In violation of international agreements) included the statement that the British Government: (Which is backstabbing the Jewish people) The British goal was to appease the Arabs in order to control Arab resources of oil.

• The British did an about face and it... does not want Palestine to become "as Jewish as England is English", rather should become "a center in which Jewish people as a whole may take, and on grounds of religion and race, an interest and a pride."

After the illegal partition, Transjordan remained part of the Palestine Mandate and its legal system applied to all residents, both East and West of the Jordan River, who all carried Palestine Mandate passports. Palestine Mandate currency was the legal tender in Transjordan as well as the area West of the river. This was the consistent situation until 1946, 24 years later, when Britain as trustee completed the illegal action by unilaterally granting Transjordan its independence. Thus the British subverted and violated the terms of the Mandate for Palestine, partitioned Palestine and created an independent Palestine-Arab state with no regard for the rights and international agreements delineating the territory for  the Jewish population. According to Sir Alec Kirkbride, the British representative in the area, Transjordan was:

• ... intended to serve as a reserve of land for use in the resettlement of Arabs once the National Home for the Jewish  people in Palestine was completed, which [Britain was] compelled to support under international treaties,  and became an accomplished fact. There was no intention at that stage of forming the territory east of the River Jordan into an independent Arab state.

In 1925, the British added 60,000 sq. km. of desert to eastern Transjordan forming an "arm" of land to connect Transjordan with Iraq and to cut Syria off from the Arabian Peninsula. The British continued to favor an apartheid rule with exclusive Arab development east of the Jordan River by enacting restrictive regulations against the Jews and prohibiting them from purchasing land or residing east of the Jordan river, even when Arab leaders sought Jewish involvement in the development of Transjordan. 

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Who gave the right to Muslims to invade the holy-land and occupy it? International treaties and agreements gave the right of return to the Jews including the Palestine Mandate laid out in the San Remo Conference in 1922 which incorporated the 1917 Balfour Declaration, Signed by 52 Nations under binding international law that is still binding today, recognizing the fact of over 3500 years of continuous historic Jewish connection with the land and even so the british government illegally partitioned and took away almost 80% of the designated area and gave it to the arab population as an additional Arab State to the existing 21 Arab States. Prior to this the Ottomans ruled and owned the land and it was taken from them during the 1st world war.

The arab connection goes back to about 690 AD and many other nations occupied Palestine-Israel over the centuries. Jews never opposed the presence of the Arabs but the arabs attitude was not mutual and has never been.
Also over 990,000 Jewish families were kicked out of Arab countries with just the clothes they wore (If they were lucky), Many were murdered and all their assets confiscated, including 120,440 square km. of real estate property, which is more than 6 times the size of Israel and valued in the trillions of dollars.

Jewish people never completely left Israel around 600 BC – that was the first diaspora when the first temple was destroyed. There wouldn’t have been anyone for the Romans to disperse if your statement were true. The Romans destroyed the second temple and also enslaved many Jewish people.

During the Diasporas, many Jews ended up in the surrounding Arab countries. These Arab countries proceeded to force out these Jewish people during the time leading up to and immediately following Israel becoming a state. Many of these people lost their property, homes, etc…. there were actually twice as many Jewish refugees from the Arab countries than there were “Palestinian” refugees.

As for the late 1800’s…. actually, very few people lived in the swamplands and sand dunes that comprised much of Israel during this time. In the early 1800’s Jewish people began purchasing a portion of the lands, improved them with modern agricultural techniques and established settlements. This land was purchased for a hefty price that exceeded the amount they would typically be sold for. The improvements to the lands actually attracted ARABS from neighboring lands. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs moved into Palestine after WWI.

“Arab claims that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamps and uncultivated when it was bought.”—Peel Commission Report, 1937.