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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Wrong, try again.
It was in existance for 11 years.
Though I did make a mistake there as 4 countries apart from Egypt recognised it.
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are you talking about the "All-Palestine Government"? you can't be serious. That was setup by the Arab league as a PR stunt prior to 1948 war when they thought they would steamroll over the Jewish settlers and it was effectively dead by the end of the war.
The Egyptians paid lip service to it, but ignored it and ruled gaza directly. When Nasser shut it down in 59, it had long ago given up any semblance of usefelness.
Jordan did not even go that far, they just annexed the West bank as part of Jordan.
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For a start there are two seperate events there in what you quoted and they are decades apart.
But on the one you are on about you are again surprisingly very wrong. Meir and Abdullah had already negotiated the deal where Transjordan would sieze the areas of the west bank allocated to the proposed Palestinian Arab State under partition. The origins of that deal go back to before WW2, though the Hashemite dream of a greater Syria went far beyond the just adding the west bank to Transjordan
When the war finally came Jordan took that land and illegally "annexed" it, the only other people to recognise it were the british who had sponsored the kingdom from the outset.
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err, yes, that is what I said previously, Jordan just annexed the West Bank in 1949 and ruled it as a part of Jordan until 67.
In the 19 years that Egypt and Jordan ruled Gaza and the West bank from 1948 to 1967, they made no effort to setup an independent Palestinian state.