Emirate of Transjordan

But before they were defeated, a secret agreement was made to divide Ottoman land between Russia, France, Italy, and Britain.

This is when the idea that Britain should govern Palestine and Transjordan first took hold.

Although Jerusalem was to remain under international mandate, Clearly, even then, dominion over Jerusalem was sensitive.

I've driven 40 minutes through the West Bank from Shiloh to Ramallah to meet Munna, a Christian Palestinian.

Almost 90 years ago, resistance to disproportionate power was already well underway.

Whereas the Jews are armed, and since they wish ill of the Arabs, and every time an Arab falls into their hands, they attack him, and whereas the government protects them, discriminates in their favor, and instructs them to denigrate the law, for all these reasons, I request to bear arms.

Flames were fanned again as the Jewish Agency suggested an idea, transfer of at least a fifth of the Arab population to Transjordan.

By 1937, Jews formed a third of the population of Palestine, and the idea of population transfer soon took root, its legacy lingering.

Wow.

about why was it originally called Trans Jordan?

Yeah, why exactly?

Yeah.

that killing animals maybe is out of alignment with the will of the Creator, that avoiding war is spiritually beneficial.

I think people came to these conclusions, but there was groups of Essenes in Egypt, in the Transjordan, up into Syria.

There was groups in Greece and spread out further into Iraq and whatnot.

Do you think people morally and ethnically were better, let's say, 2000 years ago than we are right now?

But Jerusalem was in the whole region of Judea.

So going back to your question, yeah, the Jordanians who originally were called Transjordan, they annexed this area because they had a very important interest in Judea and Samaria, and that was the Temple Mount.

Why? because there is an ancient kingdom from jordan it's called the hashemite kingdom of jordan and that family the hashemites they claim to be the rulers of the temple mount and the golden dome and so for them religiously it was a very important uh uh uh annexation to take over uh that land

Okay.

That one is not true.

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British troops have arrived at the port of Aqaba in answer to a Transjordan invitation.

The Israelis are protesting this.

And according to one story, Soviet Russia is now offering to support the Jews in any trouble that may come.

They assassinated Pekah and elected a new king, Hoshea, who immediately offered his submission to Tiglath-Pileser, 732 B.C.

This timely action meant the preservation of part of the kingdom of Israel, but all the territory north of the plain of Jezreel and the Israelite lands in the Transjordan were detached from the kingdom and reduced to a status of Assyrian provinces.

Megiddo, Carnaum, and Gilead.

The upper strata of the population of these areas, both of Syria and Israel, were deported to other parts of the Assyrian Empire and replaced by colonists from elsewhere.

This is important background for the New Testament.

When you see Jesus interacting in Samaria, for example, and there's an intermixture, ethnic intermixture that goes back centuries.

OK, now the Transjordanian provinces have retained predominantly Gentile.

remained predominantly Gentile ever since.