r/AskIsrael

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There is something many divulgators of the conflict avoid to explain.

After 1949 theere was an armistice line, the famous Green Line, that still comprosed a large portion of Judea and Samaria in the originally intended arab portion of the Partition.

So i assume that the Palestinian arabs should have had their state in the West Bank, but I have read that soon after the area was more or less formally annexed to Jordan according to the strange formula of the "sacred custody"

I wonder why the leaders of the arab palestinians had not protested at least formally this decision, because UN wanted an indipendent arab Palestine and not a larger Jordan.

As a matter of facts, it was only in 1988 that the jordanian king renounced the "sacred custody" of Judea and Samaria, for nearly 40 years the palestinians de facto were forbidden to have their state by Jordan

people who say jesus was palestinian will point he was born in what is modern palestine.

however this is sort of a dishonest definition of what palestinian means, palestine nowadays (from what i know) is a term used to refer to the arab population of what was mandatory palestine but would become israel, the west bank, and the gaza strip. (not including jordan.)

not to mention he was born 7 centuries before the arab conquests which took that land, effectively meaning you are trying to argue a jew who was born 7 centuries before what would be the modern day palestinian ethnic group even began to come into existence, counts as the same ethnic group as those people just because he was born in the same place centuries apart.