Hawkmoom, not to quibble, I think that you are slightly in error concerning the territory of Trans-Jordan here:
And the Brits, who had originally set aside all of the territory of Trans-Jordan (consisting of Israel, the West Bank, and present day Jordan) for Jewish settlement under terms of the British Mandate. But then they reneged and only permitted Jewish settlement WEST of the Jordan River.
After World War I, at the Paris Peace Conference, the name "Palestine" was applied to the area which today comprises Israel and Jordan. It was agreed that "Palestine" was to become a League of Nations Mandate, entrusted to Great Britain. Under the terms of the Mandate, Britain's principal obligation was to facilitate the implementation of the Balfour Declaration which pledged the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people.
However, in 1922, the British divided Palestine into two administrative districts. To the east, in what became known as "transjordan", the British installed a Hashemite ruler named Abdullah. By making this division, the British reduced the area available for the Jewish National Home to only 22% of the entire area of Palestine.
"Transjordan" eventually became "Jordan" and did not refer to lands east of the Jordan River. |
