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'''Greater Palestine'''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3PsAb1uV94C&q=Jordan+is+ours%2C+Palestine+is+ours%2C+and+we+shall+build+our+national+entity+on+the+whole+of+this+land+after+having+freed+it+of+both+the+Zionist+presence+and+the+reactionary-traitor+presence&pg=PA116|title=Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition|first=Daniel|last=Pipes|date=26 March 1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195363043|via=Google Books}}</ref> ({{lang-ar|فلسطين الكبرى}}) is an ] notion used by some ] nationalists seeking to establish a Palestinian ] over the whole of former ].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/ar/node/35431 | title=خلفية: الفلسطينيون في الأردن: معطيات وبيانات وأرقام }}</ref> It is also an expression of aspirations to unify both banks of the ] over time. Some Palestinian nationalists limit their demands to the lands on which Israel was established, which is expressed in the phrase ]. |
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In a statement by ], the deputy chief of the PLO at the time, about the unity of the two banks of the river, he said: |
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|text=I say that the day immediately after the establishment of the Palestinian state, we will begin unity with Jordan. I don't care what kind of unity this may be, because we are one people and have the same history.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShW7AAAAIAAJ&dq=salah+khalaf+1989+%22jordan%22&pg=PA160 | title=The Hashemite Connection: Current Issues in Jordanian-Palestinian Relations | last1=Magnus | first1=Ralph H. | date=18 January 1990 }}</ref> |
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== History == |
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{{Further|Palestine (region)|Transjordan (region)}} |
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The idea of Greater Palestine has existed since the times of the ], in the form of the ] of ].{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} |
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It included the ], northern ], ], ], and southern ]. The idea persisted through the ],{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} as the province of ], later succeeded by the provinces of ] and ]. The area of these provinces extended over huge distances, from the ] to the Golan Heights. |
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In 1920, during the later stages of the ], the ] established ] in the ]. The ] was set up as a British protectorate within the Mandate, but outside the stipulations of the ]. |
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===Jordan=== |
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In a press conference, ] declared that Jordan is "the homeland of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Jordan's people are its people." He also reminded that "the return of the East Bank to the motherland, in mind and conscience, and in spirit and body, is a basic step on the road of the return of the stolen homeland."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QZiTjRuQNZwC|title=Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan|first=Joseph A.|last=Massad|date=11 September 2001|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231505703|via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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During the ] between Palestinian guerrilla groups and the ], the Palestinians managed to take control of cities such as ], ], and ]. This was seen as an attempt to take over all of Jordan as a first step to liberate the rest of "historical Palestine" as seen by the PLO.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oCeuAgAAQBAJ&q=PLO+take+over+jordan+as+a+first+step+1970&pg=PA72|title=Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East|first=Joel S.|last=Migdal|date=18 February 2014|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231536349|via=Google Books}}</ref> However, the ] would be defeated in mid-1971 and exiled to ]. |
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In the early 1970s, the Palestinians began to be stereotyped in Jordan. Jordanians started to refer to Palestinian-Jordanians as ''Baljikiyyah'' (Belgians). This epithet continues to be used as a national insult against Palestinian Jordanians today.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/499|title=Producing the Palestinian as Other : Jordan and the Palestinians*|first=Joseph|last=Massad|series=Contemporain publications |editor-first=Roger|editor-last=Heacock|date=26 May 2009|publisher=Presses de l’Ifpo|pages=273–292|isbn=9782351592656 |via=OpenEdition Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/499|title=Temps et espaces en Palestine : Flux et résistances identitaires|first=Joseph|last=Massad|chapter=Producing the Palestinian as Other : Jordan and the Palestinians |series=Contemporain publications |editor-first=Roger|editor-last=Heacock|date=26 May 2009|publisher=Presses de l’Ifpo|pages=273–292|isbn=9782351592656 |via=OpenEdition Books}}</ref> |
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A 1975 article by the PLO: |
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{{blockquote|], which was used as the base for the success of the revolution in the ], must be our model. ... Since we cannot use all Arab countries to that end, for fear of collision between the strategy of our resolution and that of those countries, we must change the regime in Transjordan or topple it, in order to turn that territory into the firm base of our Revolution. ... We must then strive to abrogate the Jordanian entity and substitute for the revolutionary entity... We ought not, however, fall into the trap of the Israelis who claim that Jordan is the homeland of the Palestinians where they can establish their state. ... But Palestinian Transjordan can only be the first towards Greater Palestine, insofar that it will be a base for our expansion west of the River .<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=asQryfnCVsEC&q=plo+North+Vietnam%2C+which+was+used+as+the+base+for+the+success+of+the+revolution+in+the+South%2C+must+be+our+model&pg=PA52|title=Israel, the Hashemites, and the Palestinians: The Fateful Triangle|first1=Efraim|last1=Karsh|first2=P. R.|last2=Kumaraswamy|date=12 September 2018|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780714654348|via=Google Books}}</ref>}} |
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] in letter to Jordanian Students' Congress in Baghdad on 12 November 1974: |
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{{blockquote|Jordan is ours, Palestine is ours, and we shall build our national entity on the whole of this land after having freed it of both the Zionist presence and the reactionary traitor's presence.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3PsAb1uV94C&q=Jordan+is+ours%2C+Palestine+is+ours%2C+and+we+shall+build+our+national+entity+on+the+whole+of+this+land+after+having+freed+it+of+both+the+Zionist+presence&pg=PA116|title=Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition|first=Daniel|last=Pipes|date=26 March 1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195363043|via=Google Books}}</ref>}} |
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Until the late 1980s, the PLO continued to make irredentist claims by expressing their desire for Jordan to be part of the next Palestinian state. |
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== See also == |
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== Bibliography == |
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*{{cite book|title=The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSsiAwAAQBAJ |first1=Mohammed|last1=Ayoob|year=2014|location=]|publisher=Routledge, 2014|isbn=978-1317811275}} |
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== References == |
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{{Irredentism}} |
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{{Pan-nationalist concepts}} |
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{{portal bar|Palestine|Jordan|Israel}} |
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