Maan Abu Nowar

The Development of Trans-Jordan 1929–1939, The

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  • Nicklas Fransenhas quoted6 years ago
    Needless to say that as far as the Jordanians were concerned, Samuel, Deedes, Abramson, Philby, Cox, and Peake were pro-Zionist foreigners who had no right to govern them, while Abdullah was the descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, a member of the most noble Arab tribe, and their Hashemite Amir
  • Nicklas Fransenhas quoted7 years ago
    although Palestine and Jordan were under the same successive foreign occupiers, they were always separate, and the territory which became Trans-Jordan was never part of Palestine.
  • Nicklas Fransenhas quoted7 years ago
    Palestine was never Trans-Jordan and Trans-Jordan was never Palestine. The name Palestine was first coined by the ancient Greek and Roman historians, to describe the fertile coastal areas owned by the old Philistines.
  • Nicklas Fransenhas quoted7 years ago
    in 1918, Trans-Jordan became part of the Hashemite King Faisal ibn al-Hussein’s Kingdom of Syria, which was destroyed by the French Empire in 1920.
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