The Jordanians unilaterally stripped most of the residents of their citizenship, rendering them stateless
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the world powers carved up its territory and created a dozen states. In 1919, 1920 and 1922, the world powers set aside one of those states, “Palestine,” for the sole purpose of reestablishing the Jewish national homeland.
At the time, the geographical area of “Palestine” spread from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Iraqi border in the east.
The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine provided for the original two-state solution, dividing geographical Palestine into one state to the east of the Jordan River – the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which would be the Arab country – and another state to the west of the Jordan River that was allocated, in its entirety, for the Jewish state.