transjordan western palestine hello tewfik here is how the text was before between july and the term palestine referred to the british mandate of palestine after the seperation of transjordan the term referred to western palestine first there is a contradiction since the first sentence says that palestine meant the full area of the mandate which included transjordan up to while the second says that it only meant the west part after the separation of transjordan second the separation of transjordan preceded the coming into legal existence of the mandate so the time sequence is wrong third it seems confusing to say in effect palestine meant western palestine as if there is also another palestine that isn't palestine the facts as i understand them is that before the mandate came into effect palestine was only informally defined then as soon as the mandate came into effect the british administration began to use palestine to refer to the left bit and transjordan to refer to the right bit talk