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 :::This was my original point.  There were Palestinian Arab nationalists, actually the predominant movement was for inclusion in a Greater Syria at the time, a great many of whom, in fact, lived in Transjordan, which they considered part of Palestine...but the actions of the [Trans]Jordanian military were not meant, in any way whatsoever, according to anything I've read or been told by first hand accounts, to bolster this movement, but instead to crush it.  In fact, the reason that Jordan was so happy to extend its sovereignty over the woefully misnamed ""West Bank"", from what I understand, was for the specific purpose of furthering the Hashemite (i.e., a displaced dynastic family from the Hijaz), hegemony within their then-still-newly-establish Realm by quelling, by force, Palestinian nationalism on both sides of the Yarden/Urdunn.  e  "