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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (4585)	9/30/2001 3:19:48 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Arabs of Palestine were culturally indistinguishable from Arabs of Jordan, nor at the time did they think of themselves as belonging to a country called 'Palestine'. That all came later. Oops! Wrong again! <<< The population of Jordan is ethnically different from that of Palestine. The Palestinians were descended from peoples that invaded or settled in Palestine both before and after the Arabs in the seventh century. The Jordanians (the Hashemites) were mainly descended from Arab tribes of the northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Palestine and Jordan were also distinguishable by the fact that Transjordan was mostly nomadic while Palestine had 800 villages and two dozen towns. >>> This division forgets about Eastern Palestine (now called Jordan). Jordan was part of the original Mandate of Palestine referred to by the Balfour Declaration. Jordan has always considered that it is part of the same country as Palestine. And again! <<< What is important here is not the Balfour Declaration, which had no legal validity, but the Mandate, which carried the authority of the League of Nations. Article 25 the Mandate clearly provided for the exclusion of Transjordan from the scope of the proposed Jewish national home: "In the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined, the Mandatory shall be entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions, and to make such provision for the administration of the territories as he may consider suitable to those conditions..." >>> electronicintifada.net Tom