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Most Palestinian ancestors came to Jordan as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967. [3] Today, most Palestinians and their descendants in Jordan are naturalized, making Jordan the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinian refugees of 1948, as the West Bank was annexed and held by Jordan between 1948 and 1967. [4]
After the war, Jordan expelled the PLO to Lebanon but kept refugees and integrated Palestinian citizens in Jordan. Palestinians in the West Bank would retain their Jordanian citizenship until Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank on 31 July 1988. Arafat later recognized the PLO as "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian ...
The annexation followed several conferences, most notably the Jericho Conference on December 1, 1948, where Palestinian leaders denounced the Egypt-aligned All-Palestine Government, called for Jordan to annex the West Bank, and pledged allegiance to Abdullah as the king of a unified state.
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi. AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah said on Wednesday no peace was possible in the Middle East without the emergence of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Jordanian riot police on Friday forcibly dispersed hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters trying to reach a border zone with the Israeli-occupied West Bank as thousands held anti-Israel ...
At the urging of other Arab heads of state, Jordanian king Hussein bin Talal and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a ceasefire agreement in Cairo, Egypt, on 27 September 1970. The agreement called for the rapid withdrawal of Palestinian guerrilla forces from all Jordanian cities and towns, and their relocation to positions "appropriate ...
Jordan retains a voting system that favours sparsely-populated tribal and provincial regions over the densely-populated cities mostly inhabited by Jordanians of Palestinian descent, which are ...
The Palestinian Black September Organization was founded after the conflict to carry out attacks against Jordanian authorities in response to the fedayeen's expulsion; their most notable attack was the assassination of Jordanian prime minister Wasfi Tal in 1971, as he had commanded parts of the military operations against the fedayeen.