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THANK YOU PRESIDENT PUTIN FOR SAVING THE WORLD FROM THE EVIL ZIOPIGS!!

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - Fantasia on Russian Themes / Фантазия на русские темы
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB0IHPGuTFo

MegaVicar
‘‘Beauty will save the world.’ Dostoevsky said this in a more overtly spiritual context but I believe it applies here.

MrFritz-lq2fc
I'm German, and this music touches me in the core. LOVE it.
Talking about Russian composers - don't forget Sergej Lyapunov, his etudes "Storm" and "Lezghinka" are drop-dead-beautiful!

sunwahChong
My late mother was uneducated but she said that the Russians are very cultured people. My mother had great admiration and respect for the Russian people.

Kievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
https://theduran.com/kievan-russia-882%E2%88%921242-the-original-national-state-of-russians/

In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia, not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’, became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences by several external political entities of the time. According to the official historiographical traditions. mainly of Western origin, Kievan Russia was established and governed by the Nordic Vikings (“Varyagi/Varangians/Rus’”) with the Dnieper as its axis with Kiev as capital and later received Christianity of the Eastern (Greek) type from Byzantium in the south and was finally conquered by the barbaric Mongol Tartars from the east.

THOR HAN EREDYON
https://www.elenadanaan.org/interstellar-contacts-homepage/thor-han-eredyon

A Message from the Galactic Federation of Worlds on the Israel-Iran Conflict
https://exopolitics.org/a-message-from-the-galactic-federation-of-worlds-on-the-israel-iran-conflict/

ISRAEL- IRAN ATTACKS: A MESSAGE FROM THE GALACTIC FEDERATION OF WORLDS

April 13 2024

In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the Communistic, of the Bolshevistic; no. But freedom, freedom! that each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.

sunwahChong
In the Quran it mentioned that Russia will Liberate the World

The Black Sea in the Qur'an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIHjlBwrP0

Nobody-q2j
The people who exist above the Black Sea and a ADP Ian sea are clearly Russian… now they became Roman’s? This is a blunder.

SheikhImranHosein
Russia inherited RUM when Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.

Islam Channel
Russia has eased regulations for foreign nationals applying for citizenship, now allowing headscarves in passport photos, according to the Russian Interior Ministry. This law took effect in May this year.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggJmYhtxBk1naIbZN541pw/community?lb=Ugkx_wL8ldBWW5nArgK9HnlLBx1b9T84VgoO

Is Russia fulfilling a 1000-year-old Prophecy Sheikh Imran Hosein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y79v8vfUEzk

tamjansan
Thank you Sheik Imran Hosein. You are great teacher not just to Muslims but to us of other faith too. Also to us Slavic people you are true brother. You represent Islam in the way than pleases our One Creator of all, Allah! We know it because of the truth, joy and peace your words of wisdom bring to our hearts and souls!

Anwarboy
Asalaamualaykum Sheikh Imran Hosein,

I have a GREAT and GRAVE question:
When the Mahdi does finally arrive, of which his first recognition will be in Medina, how will Muslims like myself in Northern Britain know, in a day and age where the MEDIA is completely Corrupted?? and beyond this, how will we be able to crawl over ice in order to get to the Mahdi to support him, especially when oppression is increasing in my nation and travel bans and restrictions being slowly put in place... logistically speaking if civil aircrafts were perhaps non-functional in the coming time period, how would Muslims traverse through the western Zionist lands to Mecca in this day and age??
We are commanded to do this when the true Mahdi arrives, but what if it seems impossible?!

Sheikh Imran Hosein
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rizkinadakonveksi
Anees Anwar waalaaykumsalam brother, my way of thinking is simple, they will label him terrorist and will hunt him down. that's how you know it's Him (not to be confused with how west treat Osama & Baghdadi). thanks

May Allah protects us from the fitnah of Dajjal, Ameen.

The Transformation Begins! The Great Reset is Active
https://amg-news.com/bqqqm-q-drop-the-transformation-begins-the-great-reset-is-active-the-nesara-qfs-plan-wealth-distribution-for-a-new-earth-and-new-life-must-see-video/

The Quantum Financial System (QFS) Is Now Fully Operational in Russia
https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/11/alert-the-quantum-financial-system-qfs-is-now-fully-operational-in-russia-3801983.html

Russia Warns “Entire Planet Threatened By Evil” As American Excess Deaths Declared “Catastrophic”
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index4467.htm

Russia EXPOSE The USA of Moving Biological Weapons To Africa.
https://youtu.be/QFsgtQ_tPEw?si=ykmHKTqf8g_jL_te

Shocking: US's nuclear might is heavily dependent on Russia
https://youtu.be/tVQie8phV-A

Russia acquires a search engine major
https://youtu.be/MUM6fanWtsU

Why New Russian Laser Weapons are About to Change Everything
https://youtu.be/bqy5WIb3E-8?si=zFUYg2ixWkiZs4rh

Russia’s Mega Submarine Belgorod and Its Lethal Poseidon Torpedo, Takes the Ocean Stage
https://amg-news.com/russias-mega-submarine-belgorod-and-its-lethal-poseidon-torpedo-takes-the-ocean-stage-video/

Russia’s UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering Programs - Sept 2023 Part 1 and 2
https://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2023/09/russias-ufo-crash-retrieval-reverse-engineering-programs-sept-2023-part-1-and-2-2563571.html

Israel's Lies Torn Apart - The Truth About Lebanon and Gaza Attacks Exposed By Omar Baddar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umE6UFMoTJw

Blackwater CEO Erik Prince Gets HONEST About The Israeli Invasion Of Lebanon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8tYogKb6mE

mradamdsmith
Asking Eric Prince about peace is like asking P. Diddy about women's rights.

Scott-s5j
This is the Blackwater guy whose forces committed atrocities and war crimes in Iraq? WOW! Our world has different laws for different people! If he were a Muslim, he would have been in jail or dead by now.

Israel was told ‘you are not alone’ – but year of war has left it isolated
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/oct/04/israel-told-not-alone-but-year-war-isolated

Israeli Navy Launch Missiles Against Russian Bases in Syria - Putin Orders Diplomats & Citizens in Israel to Evacuate ASAP
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=246921

Israel, The American Neocons & Satan Are Winning By Default
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=246591

Moscow Demonstrates London Nuke Strike As Russia Evacuates Diplomats From America
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=246589

Lavrov's Stunning Press Conference On Multipolarity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeH_NHgusz4

Breaking: Lavrov Just said Russia wants to NEGOTIATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selMUd9AnNA

Putins_shirt
Russia has been saying it wants a negotiated peace since 2014.
Since then Russia negotiated 4 -- FOUR -- peace plans.
In March 2022, Kiev initialed its FOURTH draft peace treaty in Istanbul.

I'm sure everyone is aware of these 4 -- FOUR -- efforts by Russia to achieve peace:

1. First was the "Agreement on Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine," signed on 21 FEB 2014

2. Second was Minsk I Accords, signed on 5 SEPT 2014

3. Third was Minsk II Accords, signed on 12 FEB 2015

4. Fourth, the Russian Federation presented a resolution to the UNSC to bolster international support for the Minsk II peace plan; it was ratified with a UNANIMOUS vote on 17 FEB 2015, which means the US supported Minsk II officially, but like France and Germany did nothing material in support of peace; indeed, these 3 countries literally sabotaged all these peace efforts.

5. Istanbul

6. Now what buIIzhit will the West throw at Russia?

sunwahChong
FUCK THE BLOODY EVIL ZIOPIGS THEY CAN GO TO HELL FOR ALL I CARE NO MORE NEGOTATION THE ZIOPIGS ARE ADAMANT TO DESTROY RUSSIA!! WE MUST FIGHT TO THE END WHERE NOT ONE EVIL ZIOPIG IS LEFT ON EARTH IF NOT FOREVER NO PEACE AND HARMONY!!

CALLING RUSSIA – RUSSIA AND THE GREAT WAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3WU9x1k1Ec

institutfurtiefenwahrheit
I am a German agnostic (sorry for this, I have to be honest) but I am following Sheikh Imran Hosein (which I knew from a conversation with Alain Soral) for so many years now and cannot stop listening to him again and again. I just love this man! Thank you, Sheikh Imran Hosein!
Greetings to all you who love him, too, we are one community.

Russia And The Great War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkKpT4Rbivs

billba
I'm Greek Eastern Orthodox Christian. This Man speaks truthfully.

Iran And The Great War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVvs_kRCPw

trustaman90s
2 years old but still very relevant, Imran Hossein is a legendary scholar.

The Role Of Russia & China In WW3 & The Significance Of Turkey & Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnaOhy8Rtck

joekelley
I’m a 74-year-old white man from Florida, USA. I was raised as a Christian, but have always been uneasy about it. My faith in God, or Allah, has always been strong but Christianity just didn’t make sense the more I learned. I stumbled on to the Sheik, about 10 years ago now, and my faith has become Islam, for sure. May Allah, Bless Imran, and I thank him for the wonderful knowledge and Light I have received. Capt. Joe Kelley, an old sailor.

TRUE HISTORY
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/06/17/true-history/
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/05/31/our-real-history/

Tartaria: Vladimir Putin Made Tartaria Archive Public.
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=225924

Putin Unveils Invisible Lost Empire! Russian President Makes New Tartaria Archive Public
https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2024/02/putin-unveils-invisible-lost-empire-russian-president-makes-new-tartaria-archive-public-2549672.html

The Enigma of the Lost Empire: Russian President Vladimir Putin Makes New Tartaria Archive Public (video)
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=232460

Why? Because the power of a nation lies in its history. It is the compass that directs the future, the root that nourishes the national identity. A nation without its history is like a ship adrift in the stormy sea, aimlessly wandering with no harbor in sight.

Tartaria: The Hidden Empire
https://rumble.com/v30iyxy-tartaria-the-hidden-empire.html

The One World Tartarians
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/06/03/the-one-world-tartarians/

Origins of the Tartar Empire
https://finalwakeupcall.info/blog/2023/12/22/oorsprong-van-het-tartaarse-rijk/

The Tartarian Empire
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2023/12/16/the-tartarian-empire/

Great Tartary
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/03/12/great-tartary/
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/03/22/great-tartary-continuation-2/
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/04/02/great-tartary-continuation-3/
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/04/05/great-tartary-4th-part/

Who were the Tatars? The Final Wakeup Call By Peter B. Meyer (Old World Order VIDEO 1.30.31) PLEASE SHARE WIDELY
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=241529

Who were the Tatars?
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/06/06/who-were-the-tatars/

Tatars reclaim their past
https://finalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXYt0Uc6ZUwakeupcall.info/en/2024/06/10/tatars-reclaim-their-past/

TARTARIAN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/06/13/tartarian-transport-systems/

Unpacking Tartaria, Pt. 6 - Subterranean Networks, Underground Railroads & Buried Cities
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=241536

Insane Asylums of Tartaria
https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2024/05/insane-asylums-of-tartaria-2718611.html

Diana PatriQts: The Anunnaki Star Gate Ring Under the Ancient Sumerian City
https://operationdisclosureofficial.com/2024/06/09/diana-patriqts-the-anunnaki-star-gate-ring-under-the-ancient-sumerian-city/

This is why Bush invaded Iraq with weapons of mass destruction. The Anunnaki StarGate ring was stolen by the CIA. The StarGate ring was located under the ancient Sumerian city of Ur which received 400 continuous missile hits. They stole the stargate and brought it to CERN.

MAKE THIS VIRAL! JOIN @JulianAssange TG

Nasrallah Was A Direct Descendant Of Muhammad! Most People Have NO IDEA How Serious Things Have Become
https://endoftheamericandream.com/nasrallah-was-a-direct-descendant-of-muhammad-most-people-have-no-idea-how-serious-things-have-become/

Famous Historian EXPOSES ISR*EL’S FACTS! | Isr*el’s Future In The Quran!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcwqmWND3Y

javierortegaarrayga
Hi, wow, I got 2000 years of education in less than an hour. I do appreciate it so much, it's great to have a different and honest point of view and truth telling.

As a catholic, I feel terrible never studying the Muslim religion, but I'm glad that those few I had interacted with were so kind that blow my heart, they made me feel as one of them in no time and I learned from their kindness. ❤

[Untold Story]: How the West Stole Democracy from Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFXrX1867wA

علىخطىالعرب-خ6ت
The video makes a strong point: there should be no borders between Arab countries, as these divisions were imposed by the West, mainly by the UK and France. The colonial powers carved up the Arab world, stripping away its unity. The creation of Israel also played a major role in destabilizing and fragmenting the region, further harming Arab unity. Had the West not interfered by dividing the Arab nations and introducing an occupying force like Israel, the Arab world could have been united as one, potentially like a collection of kingdoms—such as the Kingdom of Syria or the Kingdom of Hijaz—that once existed. This region, rich in culture and history, was devastated by Western colonialism and occupation. Greetings from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦❤️! Thanks you for telling the world the truth!

sunwahChong
I was searching for a video supporting my claim that the West betrayed the Arabs and lo and behold God sent to me on the phone.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: An In-Depth History | The War Myth & Jordan's Betrayal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2FwBRvOZI

malekahmedtamimi
The sad part is the guy who is singing in the intro died as a refugee and never went back to palestine. His name is abu arab. The song is called haddi ya bahar meaning calm down o sea.

Greater Israel Explained: The Israeli Plan to Conquer the Arab World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEYEcAd-tzQ

ibeemeeintp
Welcome to the "Now i know about the greater Israel project" club folks...... Once you learn it you can't UNLEARN it......

lydiamiceli
There are no words to describe my hatred and condemnation for the apartheid Zionist regime of Israel and its people.

During the Great War of 1914-1918, the Ottoman empire, which included Palestine, fought alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary against the Allies. That made the Holy Land enemy territory from the British perspective, and Britain took the lead in conquering it. When the war ended, the victorious Allies divided the formerly Ottoman Near East into new political units. In April 1920, they assigned to France the mandate to govern Syria, including Lebanon. They assigned two mandates to Britain, one for Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and one for Palestine. Borders for the three territories were not yet defined.

How did British Mandate Palestine get its borders? The line in the north emerged from Anglo-French negotiations in 1923. The one in the south was fixed by treaties in the mid-1920s between Britain and the new nation of Saudi Arabia. The border between Mandate Palestine and Mandate Mesopotamia was of little immediate importance, given that it was in the middle of an uninhabited desert and Britain controlled both sides. That line was finally fixed through an exchange of letters in 1932.

What particularly interests us here is how Britain handled Eastern Palestine. The short answer is that it remained under the British Mandate for Palestine until 1946, when it became the independent kingdom of Transjordan, later renamed Jordan. Western Palestine remained under the Mandate until May 1948.

The longer answer requires us to go back to World War I.

In November 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, a promise to help create in Palestine a Jewish national home. The promise, motivated by a combination of strategic and moral considerations, was controversial, including within the government.

As Britain (with a small bit of help from French forces) was conquering Palestine and Syria, its military commander, General Edmund Allenby, chose to view Eastern and Western Palestine as distinct areas. A practical man, he had no interest in Jewish nationalism, nor any sympathy for it. In 1918, he combined Transjordan and inland Syria into a military occupation zone that Britain allowed the Arabian Emir Faysal to administer from Damascus. Allenby assigned Palestine west of the Jordan to a different occupation zone, with its own military government based in Jerusalem.

Allenby hoped Faysal would reign over a Syrian kingdom that included Transjordan. That would give London influence over the whole area, as Faysal was understood to be Britain’s man. But French leaders were hostile to Faysal, and, when they took control of Damascus in July 1920, they ousted him. (Britain soon consoled Faysal with the kingship of Iraq.) British officials, not wanting France to control Transjordan, quickly made clear that Transjordan was not part of French Mandate Syria.

What, then, should be done with Transjordan? Britain’s high commissioner in Palestine had said it should be recognized as part of Palestine under his supervision. He stressed that it could help Western Palestine meet its future food, water, and electricity needs.

Britain’s new foreign secretary, Lord Curzon, however, disagreed, primarily because of his concerns about the costs of administering Transjordan. At the same time, however, he saw Western and Eastern Palestine as a strategically valuable “land bridge” connecting British Egypt to British Mandate Mesopotamia. His dilemma was how to retain control of that “bridge” while limiting Britain’s responsibilities in Transjordan.

Curzon suggested that Transjordan might be given “some form of independent Arab Government.” One option, he said, was to recognize Transjordan as belonging to Palestine or Mesopotamia. Another was to divide Transjordan between those Mandates. And a third was to leave it “for future arrangement.” Curzon preferred to wait, “leaving the eastern boundary of Palestine . . . for subsequent definition when the situation as regards Arabia has developed further.”

In February 1921,Winston Churchill became secretary of state for the colonies and responsibility for the Middle East was transferred from Curzon to him. Churchill promptly devised a set of policies of huge importance and lasting effect. They created kingdoms and put men on thrones. They drew new maps. And, it can be argued, they partitioned Palestine for the first time between Arabs and Jews.

High on Churchill’s agenda was Eastern Palestine. Churchill shared Curzon’s view that an Arab administration of Transjordan could help keep down British expenditures. Churchill also agreed to maintain the ban on Zionist settlement east of the Jordan River—originally put in place by Britain’s military administration, which claimed to lack the resources necessary to protect Jews there.

Zionist leaders argued that Britain should not exclude Transjordan from the Jewish national home. In a communication to a senior British official, the U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis said that Palestine needed access to water resources in Transjordan for irrigation and power and also to Transjordan’s “fertile plains . . . for food and sustenance.” (Upon joining the Supreme Court in 1916, Brandeis had resigned his chairmanship of America’s principal Zionist organization, but he remained active in the Jewish national cause.)

The leader of the Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, argued to Churchill that Transjordan, from earliest times, was “an integral and vital part of Palestine.” Its plains were the Holy Land’s “natural granary” and the climate was “invigorating.” The area was “scarcely inhabited and long derelict,” Weizmann said, and severing it from Palestine “would be scant satisfaction to Arab Nationalism, while it would go far to frustrate” Britain’s Jewish-national-home policy. “While Eastern Palestine may probably never have the same religious and historic significance as Western Palestine,” he wrote, “it may bulk much larger in the economic future of the Jewish National Home.”

Churchill knew that it might not be possible diplomatically to arrange a separate British mandate for Transjordan. His staff therefore proposed acknowledging the territory as part of Mandate Palestine—a decision comfortably within the time-honored common understanding that Palestine straddled the Jordan River.

The ban on Jewish settlement in Eastern Palestine, however, created a legal conundrum. How could Churchill maintain the ban when one of the chief duties of Britain, as Palestine’s mandatory power, was to encourage “close settlement by Jews on the land?” Churchill did not buy his staff’s argument that the Mandate, as then drafted, gave Britain the necessary authority. Amending the draft would be awkward, but Churchill feared a legal challenge. He sought help from lawyers. If it were “absolutely necessary” to change the Mandate to keep Transjordan out of the Jewish national home, he wrote, then he wanted the new authority couched in vague language: “to specify areas affected without referring in detail to proposed difference in treatment.”

The result was an artfully muddy amendment that was added to the Mandate as Article 25. It stated, “In the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined, the Mandatory shall be entitled . . . to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions.” The words were framed, a senior official explained, to enable Britain “to withhold indefinitely the application of those clauses of the mandate which related to the establishment of a National Home for the Jews.”

After the League of Nations eventually approved the Mandate in 1922, the British representative Arthur Balfour submitted to it a memorandum, citing Article 25, that listed all the clauses about Jews and said they were “not applicable” in Transjordan. Balfour told the League’s governing council that the memorandum’s object was “to withdraw from Trans-Jordan the special provisions which were intended to provide a national home for the Jews west of the Jordan.” France’s representative said he understood that Balfour’s memorandum “only aimed at maintaining in the area to the east of the Jordan the general regime of the Mandate for Palestine.” Balfour said he agreed.

On March 23,1921, Churchill had traveled to Jerusalem to persuade Emir Abdullah, Faysal’s brother, to content himself, at least for the time being, with a position in Transjordan. Having decided that Transjordan “should be constituted an Arab province of Palestine under an Arab governor, responsible to the High Commissioner,” Churchill suggested that Abdullah take responsibility there for six months with British help. Abdullah agreed.

Nothing is so permanent as the provisional, the adage says. That six-month arrangement has not ended—it has been in operation for a century. It gave rise to the emirate of Transjordan, which existed under the Palestine Mandate until 1946 and then evolved into the kingdom of Transjordan, which changed its name in 1949 to the kingdom of Jordan, which exists to this day under the kingship of Abdullah’s great-grandson, Abdullah II.

Zionist leaders of all stripes were unhappy with the British government’s policy on Transjordan. Vladimir Jabotinsky would demand reversal of the territory’s exclusion from the Jewish national home, making a rallying cry of the slogan “Two banks to the Jordan—this is ours, and this too.” The words, which rhyme in Hebrew (Shtey gadot la-yarden—zu shelanu, zu gam ken) were from a poem by Jabotinsky that, put to music, became one of the anthems of his political movement’s youth organization.

Although the idea that the Jewish national home should include Eastern Palestine became associated mainly, if not exclusively, with the political right when Jabotinsky’s Zionist Revisionist movement adopted it as a tenet, in 1921 it was a consensus view among Zionists from right to left.

Some British officials likewise looked askance at the Transjordan policy. Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen of the Colonial Office said he “exploded” when he heard Churchill “had severed Transjordan from Palestine.” In his memoir, A Crackle of Thorns, Alec Kirkbride, a British military officer in Transjordan who became Britain’s first ambassador there, commented wryly that, after Britain chose to put Abdullah in charge, “In due course the remarkable discovery was made that the clauses of the mandate relating to the establishment of a National Home for the Jews had never been intended to apply to mandated territory east of the river.” Leopold Amery, a former colonial secretary and one of the drafters of the Balfour Declaration, criticized the Transjordan policy for “taking out of Palestine the larger and better half, the half more suitable to large-scale colonization.” Years later—in a May 22, 1939 House of Commons debate—he described the decision as Palestine’s “first partition.”

In early 1921 Colonial Office officials mulled the question of terminology and proposed that “‘Palestine’ and ‘Eastern Palestine’ should be brought into use for the territories lying respectively to the west and east of the River Jordan.” Their recommendation was only partially adopted. Palestine became the term used for Western Palestine. But the territory east of the Jordan would commonly be called Transjordan.

The common use of “Transjordan” rather than “Eastern Palestine” had consequences. After the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence, it allowed supporters of the Palestinian Arabs to describe them as “stateless.” After the 1967 Six-Day War, it allowed people to say plausibly, if inaccurately, that the Jews had taken control of all of Palestine, leaving none to the Arabs.

Numerous books—for example, Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006)—now contain maps that attach the labels “Palestine” or “Mandate Palestine” only to Palestine west of the Jordan. Writing that the Zionists “were ultimately able to take over the entire country,” Khalidi endorsed the common but ahistorical assertion that Palestine extended no further east than the Jordan River. By way of contrast, it is notable that another leading American scholar of Arab origin, Princeton University’s Philip K. Hitti, in his History of Syria: Including Lebanon and Palestine (1951), dealt accurately with this point of geography. After identifying Palestine as “the southern part of Syria,” Hitti wrote that Palestine was “amputated” from Syria, and then, “In 1921 Transjordan, with a biblical name but no real historical existence, was in turn amputated from Palestine and placed under the Emir Abdullah.”

Would the world now perceive the Arab-Israeli conflict differently if British officials had adopted that proposal from the Colonial Office to continue to use the term Eastern Palestine, rather than Transjordan? Would world politics be different if people generally understood that the kingdom of Jordan is in Eastern Palestine and Israel is in Western Palestine? Would the conflict have been different if no one had ever contended that the Palestinian Arabs are “stateless?”

Such questions have been excitedly debated over the years, including within Israel. Early in his political career, Ariel Sharon, who became Israeli prime minister in 2001, made famous the slogan “Jordan is Palestine,” using it to counter demands for Israeli territorial concessions to the Palestinians. Of the various arguments advanced in favor of such concessions, one was that Israel should agree to divide the land it controlled because the Arabs deserved a state in at least part of Palestine. Sharon’s answer was that an Arab state—Jordan—already existed in Palestine.

Sharon’s slogan became a hot button in Israeli politics because it sounded dismissive of concerns about how Israel should deal with the rights of Palestinians living west of the Jordan River. Anyone who heard it that way had good grounds to object. Those concerns are serious and the slogan is not at all the end of the story. But, as much as one might dislike its political implications, the simple statement that Jordan is Palestine is factual.

The distinguished Anglo-American historian Bernard Wasserstein clearly did not like the slogan’s political implications. Rejecting the view of Jabotinsky and Sharon that Palestine was partitioned in 1921 as a “myth,” he wrote, “In fact, what occurred [when Britain decided that Transjordan would be part of the Palestine Mandate, albeit outside the Jewish national home] was a huge addition to the territory of Palestine, not any subtraction.” He added, “Zionist disappointment at the loss of what they had never been promised and never possessed led to the idea that they had been somehow cheated out of their birthright. The legend persists.”

Wasserstein’s point is supported by the view of Allenby and his officers. When they spoke of “Palestine,” they generally meant only Western Palestine. From their perspective, Transjordan’s inclusion in the Palestine Mandate was an addition. But Jabotinsky and Sharon were not wrong. As is clear in any library of books of history and natural history from before the Great War—including, as we have seen, the massive British military surveys of the Palestine Exploration Fund and the widely-read work of the scholar George Adam Smith—“Palestine” had a western part and an eastern part that were separated by the Jordan River. From the viewpoint of the established experts in geography, declaring Transjordan out of the Jewish national home was a subtraction.

Wasserstein’s statement that Transjordan “had never been promised to the Zionists” is true in that it was never explicitly promised to anyone. Britain, however, did promise to help create a Jewish national home “in Palestine,” and all the parties involved understood that the boundaries remained to be specified.

For their part, Zionist leaders and top British officials understood that the word “Palestine” in the Balfour Declaration included Transjordan—in other words, that Eastern Palestine, or at least part of it, was included in the promise to the Zionists. That is clear from the Brandeis and Weizmann letters. It is evident from Amery’s remarks. And it is shown conclusively by Churchill’s agreement to accept Article 25. If the Balfour Declaration had been limited to west of the Jordan, Churchill would not have felt compelled to add in Article 25 to make the Mandate’s Jewish-home clauses inapplicable east of the Jordan.

Wasserstein is correct that the Zionists never “possessed” Transjordan, but it is unclear what that signifies. Jews in ancient times had lived east of the river, but Britain banned the Zionists from settling there.

To sum up: “Palestine” was long universally understood to include the land on both sides of the Jordan River. Eastern Palestine is now the kingdom of Jordan. Its eastern border was not finalized until after the League of Nations approved the Palestine Mandate. Maps of Mandate Palestine that include only Western Palestine are misleading because the emirate of Transjordan was part of Mandate Palestine, governed under Britain’s Jerusalem-based high commissioner for Palestine from 1921 until the emirate became an independent kingdom in 1946. Amery had a firm basis for saying that taking Transjordan out of the Jewish national home in 1921-1922 can properly be called Palestine’s “first partition.”

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