Peloni: This is an important article. Geoffrey Clarfield wrote this two years ago, and it details the context in which Trans Jordan, later renamed Jordan, was designated by the British as the Arab Palestinian state, carved from the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Geoffrey explores not only the basis of why Jordan is Palestine, but also why all parties, including many in Israel, have gone to great lengths to obscure the truth that Jordan is Palestine. In the closing paragraphs of this essay, Geoffrey references Mudar Zahran who was chased into exile because he dared to cite the uncomfortable truth that Jordan is a Palestinian State and a state of Palestinians. With the faux clamor being made today about the need to address the national aspirations of the Arab Palestinians, is it not time to actually address the the truth detailed in this essay with the world, no matter how difficult it might be to either side? Indeed, the recognition of the fact that Jordan is Palestine will end the charade of weaponizing Arab Palestinian statehood towards the destruction of Israel, while simultaneously giving the Arab Palestinians the recognition of a homeland, for those who honestly hold such a desire rather than using it as a bludgeon to justify an eternal pursuit of Jihad.
The world needs an urgent policy rethink
Geoffrey Clarfield | Autumn/Winter 2023

On October 7, 2023 a non-state entity called Hamas, which the U.S. government declared a terrorist organization in 1997 (followed by Canada, under Jean Chrétien, in 2002) attacked the Israeli border, or armistice line, with Gaza in the southwest of the country.
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