There Already Is A Palestine

The “inconvenient truth” about the history of Jordan, the Palestinians, and Israel.

by Rod D. Martin
July 14, 2013

Forty-six years after the Six Day War, its memory invariably produces a deluge of propaganda attacking “the Zionist Entity” and promoting “an independent Palestine”, restricted to the territories Israel took in 1967 (for English-speaking audiences), or “driving the last Jew into the sea” (in Arabic and Persian).  Lost in the din are some particularly “inconvenient truths”, both historical and contemporary, but none more so than this: there already is a Palestine, and it’s called Jordan.

This may be news to you.  It is certainly not news to the Jordanians (the vast majority of whom are actually Palestinians).  It’s not news to the Israelis either, who having made peace with Jordan don’t care to raise the issue.  It certainly isn’t news to the terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza:  it just doesn’t serve their purpose.

But truth is truth.  And it might ultimately serve everyone’s interests to remember it.

“Palestine” (from the Greek for Philistine, the deadly en…