Palestine and Jordan

The Jordanian-Palestinian relationship, Jordan and Palestine, form the southern part of the region historically and geographically known in the Islamic era as Bilad al-Sham. And it was known until the end of the Ottoman Empire. In the post-World War I period, it was sometimes known as Greater Syria and sometimes General Syria. This country remained a single unit of its land and its inhabitants until the end of the Arab government that King Faisal formed in Syria after the battles of the Great Arab Revolt ended. After the end of Faysal rule in July 1920, the colonial governments began dividing the region into areas of influence that the region had not previously undertaken, and that division had been preceded by the decision issued by the British Foreign Minister Balfour in 1917 CE, which decided to establish a national home for the Jews in Palestine, this challenge which he resisted The Palestinian Arab people, with stubborn insistence, witnessed multiple revolutions on the basis of which the Palestinian arena, the most important of which was the Al-Buraq Revolution in 1929 AD, then the Great Palestinian Revolution in 1936 AD. By virtue of shared national responsibility, and based on the unity of a common destiny, the Jordanian people had extended a helping hand, support, and support to the Palestinian Arab people to support them in the armed revolutions that sought to liberate Palestine and maintain Palestinian sovereignty over it.

Although Jordan was subject to the British Mandate at that time, Jordanians participated with their available capabilities in the Palestinian national uprisings and offered martyrs for the sake of the freedom of Palestine and its people. The first Jordanian support to the Palestinians was the support of the Jordanian tribes to the Palestinian people in attacking the Jewish settlements in 1920, which was their first major armed clash with the Jews. Kayed Al-Muflih Al-Obaidat from Kafr Som was the first Jordanian martyr on the land of Palestine. This support continued throughout the mandate period, and when the United Nations General Assembly approved the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews on November 29, 1947 AD, the Palestinians refused, and the Jordanians were the first Arab volunteers who answered the call of duty to support their Palestinian brothers to prevent the division of their country. And after the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 AD, the Jordanian Arab Army participated in repelling the Zionist attacks on Palestine and was able to preserve the lands that the unified Arab leadership entrusted to it to defend, thus preserving the Jordanian valley and the cities of Jerusalem, Ramallah, Lod, and Ramleh.