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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.
On 13 September 1993 the Oslo Agreement was signed, and the following day the Palestinian members of the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation became a separate delegation. The Oslo accord enabled the Jordanian delegation to openly negotiate with the Israeli delegation, and on 26 October 1994, the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty was signed.
Palestinian culture consists of food, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of Palestinian culture. The folklorist revival among Palestinian intellectuals such as Nimr Sirhan , Musa Allush , Salim Mubayyid , and others emphasized pre- Islamic cultural ...
The Palestinian diaspora (Arabic: الشتات الفلسطيني, al-shatat al-filastini), part of the wider Arab diaspora, are Palestinian people living outside the region of Palestine and Israel. There are 2.1 Mio Arabs in Gaza, 2.9 in the West Bank , and 1.65 in Israel . more than 6.1 Mio live outside, most of them in Jordan, Syria, Chile ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, King Hussein of Jordan and his officials frequently proclaimed that 'Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan,' aiming to present Jordanians and Palestinians as one people with a shared destiny. [4] [5]
Passions have run high among Jordanians, many of whom are of Palestinian origin, over Israel's relentless Gaza bombing campaign against Hamas that has killed tens of thousands of civilians ...
The number of people in the US claiming Palestinian ancestry has nearly quadrupled in the past 30 years, according to MPI’s analysis of government statistics. A growing share of them are US-born.
Print media also continues to play a large role in Jordanian culture; the most widely read the Arabic language newspapers include ad-Dustour ("The Constitution") and Al Ra'i ("The Opinion"). Additionally, the country has one daily English-language newspaper, The Jordan Times , and one weekly English-language newspaper, The Star .