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- From: bdm@cs.anu.edu.au (Brendan McKay)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
- Subject: Re: Jordanian Palestinians (was: israel & hamas)
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:16:32 +1100
- Organization: Australian National University
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- clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen) writes:
-
- >In article <1hm7f4INNmvi@manuel.anu.edu.au> bdm@cs.anu.edu.au (Brendan McKay) writes:
-
- >> Both Syria and Iraq made offers to take large numbers of Palestinian
- >> refugees under various conditions. Jordan made them citizens. Your
- >> stolid determination to remain ignorant is a marvel.
-
- >Did Jordan grant citizenship to the Palestinian refugees or only to
- >those legally residing in the West Bank when it was annexed?
-
- In 1954, Jordan passed a law that defined as a Jordanian citizen
- (i) someone who was a Jordanian citizen according to either of
- two earlier laws, and
- (ii) someone who was not a Jew, was a Palestinian citizen in 1947,
- and whose normal place of residence was Jordan at the time of
- passage of this law.
-
- Note that Jordan in (ii) then included the WB according to Jordanian
- law. This is from memory, so some details might be wrong. I am
- certain that Jews were expressly excluded in part (ii); this was
- claimed to be in retaliation for Israel's Law of Return. Note that
- the law declared that some people were Jordanians; it didn't just
- give them the opportunity.
-
- >Stewart M. Clamen Internet: clamen@cs.cmu.edu
-
- Brendan.
-