This was my original point There were Palestinian Arab nationalists actually the predominant movement was for inclusion in a Greater Syria at the time a great many of whom in fact lived in Transjordan which they considered part of Palestine but the actions of the Trans Jordanian military were not meant in any way whatsoever according to anything I ve read or been told by first hand accounts to bolster this movement but instead to crush it In fact the reason that Jordan was so happy to extend its sovereignty over the woefully misnamed West Bank from what I understand was for the specific purpose of furthering the Hashemite i e a displaced dynastic family from the Hijaz hegemony within their then still newly establish Realm by quelling by force Palestinian nationalism on both sides of the Yarden Urdunn e