Emirate of Transjordan
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Oct 29, 2026
Chris NashGUEST
He covered the Israeli War of Independence from the Jewish side and was close to David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir.
Chris NashGUEST
But he supported a binational state for the new community as part of a larger Arab federation that would take in what was then known as Transjordan, what we now know as Jordan, and also parts of Lebanon.
Chris NashGUEST
That was completely unacceptable to the Zionist leadership in the United States and also in Israel, and he became persona non grata.
Chris NashGUEST
In the late 1940s, with the onset of the Cold War, McCarthyist perches in the arts and the media, Stone lost access to government sources.
Judith RoodGUEST
And then the British Mandate soon followed that called for the creation of the Jewish Agency.
Judith RoodGUEST
And the Jewish agency was mandated as part of the Palestine mandate, which at the time included both what we call Palestine in those days and Transjordan.
Judith RoodGUEST
It was all one big thing that got separated in like 1923 or 24.
Judith RoodGUEST
So the Jewish agency is the genesis of the political side of Zionism to build the homeland, and part of that was immigration, to allow Jews to immigrate.
Simon WhistlerHOST
As you may know, that plan didn't exactly survive contact with reality.
Simon WhistlerHOST
The surrounding Arab states rejected partition immediately, and the day after Israel declared its independence, armies from Egypt, what was then known as Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq all invaded.
Simon WhistlerHOST
And spoiler alert, Israel survived, but without much else to show for it.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Food and clothing were both under ration, the country was completely isolated in the region, and sat on just about the only spot in the Middle East without any oil.
Dave RobbinsHOST
Is the modern-day nation of Israel, is that some kind of a political construct? Or is it a biblical? Does the Bible and history and archaeology proclaim that they have a land there? The Bible gives Abraham an everlasting covenant, doesn't it? So what happened is on our timeline here that we're building, After World War I, the Ottomans were defeated by the allies there, and it was divided up into mandates.
Dave RobbinsHOST
The Palestine region, where Israel is today, it was called Palestine after the revolts and things in the early centuries A.D., And after the revolts there, and so the British were given, they had the mandate system under the League of Nations, and they said, okay, the British, we're going to give you the mandate to control where Israel and Transjordan is, and then the French controlled where Lebanon, Syria is.
Dave RobbinsHOST
And so it's called the British Mandate.
Dave RobbinsHOST
The British Mandate subsequently became part of the political framework within which the conflict over the land developed.
Isaac ZaleGUEST
Why would I go into the wilderness? That's the first point.
Isaac ZaleGUEST
The second point is this narrative never really takes into account how Jordan was created in the first place, right? I believe it was, what, was it 21 when the emir of Transjordan was created? I feel like Hakeem would probably know this.
Isaac ZaleGUEST
It was 21?
HakimHOST
It was literally 20.
Isaac ZaleGUEST
put my brother Faisal back on the throne because the French just kicked him out.
Isaac ZaleGUEST
And the British go, oh my god, we can't have one of our allies threatening the French from territory we control.
Isaac ZaleGUEST
So they carve off Jordan to create the emir of Transjordan to satiate Amir Abdullah, give him his throne there, and create a little British client state.
Isaac ZaleGUEST
And then what they do is they give his brother Faisal, the one who was... kicked out of Syria, Iraq.
Yael SteinerHOST
Wow.
Yael SteinerHOST
So from the river to the sea, but also the East Bank, including Transjordan.
Yael SteinerHOST
And I think that that really makes sense when you think about his ideology and because land is power to a lot of people.
Yael SteinerHOST
And territorial maximalism would allow the Jews to acquire as much power as they could and be able to defend themselves best that they could.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Jews accepted the United Nations partition, but no Arab or any other Muslim country accepted it.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When British rule ended on May 15th, 1948, the armies of all the neighboring Arab states, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, and Egypt, attacked the one-day-old state of Israel in order to destroy it.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[weapons firing] But to the world's surprise, the little Jewish state survived.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Then it happened again.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Jews accepted the United Nations partition, but no Arab or any other Muslim country accepted it.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When British rule ended on May 15th, 1948, the armies of all the neighboring Arab states, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, and Egypt, attacked the one-day-old state of Israel in order to destroy it.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[weapons firing] But to the world's surprise, the little Jewish state survived.
Dennis PragerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Then it happened again.
Alex TraimanHOST
The reason why Israel has this army is because the second Israel declared statehood in the area that the United Kingdom left for them, right? Remember, the United Kingdom, they had a British mandate.
Alex TraimanHOST
The mandate was to create a Jewish state in all of the land which at the time was called Palestine, which is all of present Israel, all of Judea and Samaria, and all of at the time what was Transjordan, today what's Jordan, okay? So these two countries, Israel and Jordan, was all supposed to be a Jewish state according to the British, the British mandate after World War II, okay? Under international law.
Alex TraimanHOST
Under international law.
Alex TraimanHOST
And the British, what did they do? They sliced off 75% of that land and they gave it to the Hashemites to create a country called Jordan.
Lucy TabriziGUEST
While Britain initially supported a Jewish national home, it later restricted Jewish immigration, explicitly rejected establishing a Jewish state as British policy, and abstained from the nineteen forty-seven United Nations partition vote.
Lucy TabriziGUEST
It also funded and equipped Transjordan's Arab Legion, which fought Israel in nineteen forty-eight under British officer John Glubb.
Lucy TabriziGUEST
This is not how you install a colonial outpost.
Lucy TabriziGUEST
For one final irony, Free Palestine was used in the nineteen-forties by Zionist activists campaigning for an end to British rule.
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