Ocean Guy explains the real war for 'Palestine.' This is a point that can't be repeated often enough. Hopefully, some day, more people will begin to grasp it.
The Hashemites were seen as usurpers, as foreign puppets, by the native Arabs and Bedouin. There have been Arabs fighting the Hashemite Kingdom from its inception and there will be Arabs who will continue to fight them as long as both sides stay mired in a Medieval society. At one point even Arafat, the Egyptian, saw himself as the next King of Jordan... Let's just say that, for many Arabs, there is some measure of artificiality to the Kingdom of Jordan.
Today, we see a continuation of the struggle between Jordan's Hashemite King Abdullah and the palestinians who don't hold Jordanian citizenship. That fight, Hamas v. Hashemites, would continue even if there was no Israel. One might get the idea that settling THAT fight might be a better way to bring peace to the region between ALL Arabs and Israel. I wish that idea would strike a few more people.
For a detailed look at how the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was created, start here and follow the prompts forward. (Note: the assertion that Transjordan was "not subject to the Balfour Declaration" is controversial at best. In fact it was widely understood that the Balfour Declaration applied to all of Britain's "Mandate for Palestine," and it was only after Arab riots in 1921 prompted a change of heart that the infamous "Churchill White Paper" "interpreted" the Declaration so as to exclude the seventy-five percent of the Mandate that was handed to the Hashemites and ultimately became known as Jordan.)
