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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
Not anymore. Israel still occupies the Palestinian land that it took from Jordan in 1967. Jordan is more than happy for that to no longer be their problem and does not want the land back.
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"Palestine" was the name that Britain gave to a territory it received after the break-up of the Ottoman empire. Palestine became modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Jordan.
Jordan was created to appease the Hashemites after they lost to the Saudis. Both the Hashemites and Saudis were struggling for control of the Arabian Peninsula, when the Hashemites lost, the British, in order to avoid a massive war between Arab tribes, gave the Hashemites Jordan, and they moved there.
Edit: Also, before the Ottoman Empire was torn apart, there were no borders or individual countries. People could move freely between areas. So the line between being Palestinian and Egyptian or Jodanian is pretty artificial to begin with.