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“Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate is an indivisible territorial unit”
For the PLO – the sole spokesman of the Palestinian Arabs – Jordan remains an inseparable part of Palestine notwithstanding the actions of Great Britain and the League of Nations in 1946.
Indeed the PLO’s stated position was reinforced at the 8th Palestinian National Council meeting in February-March 1971 which declared:
” Jordan is linked to Palestine by a national relationship and a national unity forged by history and culture from the earliest times. The creation of one political entity in Transjordan and another in Palestine would have no basis either in legality or as to the elements universally accepted as fundamental to a political entity. .. In raising the slogan of the liberation of Palestine and