The Development of Trans-Jordan 1929–1939, The

Needless to say that as far as the Jordanians were concerned, Samuel, Deedes, Abramson, Philby, Cox, and Peake were pro-Zionist foreigners who had no right to govern them, while Abdullah was the descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, a member of the most noble Arab tribe, and their Hashemite Amir

although Palestine and Jordan were under the same successive foreign occupiers, they were always separate, and the territory which became Trans-Jordan was never part of Palestine.

Palestine was never Trans-Jordan and Trans-Jordan was never Palestine. The name Palestine was first coined by the ancient Greek and Roman historians, to describe the fertile coastal areas owned by the old Philistines.

in 1918, Trans-Jordan became part of the Hashemite King Faisal ibn al-Hussein’s Kingdom of Syria, which was destroyed by the French Empire in 1920.