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The idea of setting up a national state for people without a national consciousness may seem like a radical idea today, but was in fact commonplace in the post-WWI period in which Transjordan was set up (think Iraq and countless other examples).
In objecting to the emergence of yet ANOTHER state for Palestinian Arabs (the proposed state of Palestine), people with a proper notion of history are correct to object, and argue that `Jordan is Palestine`. But that historical truism is of ZERO practical importance today. The fact is that whether through design, accident, anti-Semitism, or geographical separation and regardless of whether it`s historically justified or not, Arabs in the territories HAVE developed an identity distinct from those in Jordan over the past sixty, and certainly the past forty, years. |
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