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(11,841 posts)The palestinians are just as much Jordanian as they are anything else. When the partition re-creating Israel happened, it also created Jordan from the same land. Jordan promptly annexed more land. So any talk of Israel giving up land for a new country should also include Jordan doing the same, yet it NEVER does. Why? Why shouldnt Jordan add land to give a bigger state to them? The term palestinian was not used in essence until the British created the British Mandatory Palestine after WW1 using land seized from the Turks. Even the Arabs at the time did not agree with the creation because to them this area was southern Syria. There were even protests among other Arabs at the creation of a palestinian area. Only after France conquered Syria in '20 did Arabs all of a sudden start to consider a separate Muslim area and consider it "Palestine", because they had no liking for France of course. In '47 the palestinians were offered their own land at the same time, but they refused to accept it. There has never been a Palestinian king, monarch, president, etc.