After WW1 land controlled by the Ottomen Turks was taken over by the British, who invented the kingdom of Jordan [TransJordan] with 70% of the area under the ruling class of Hashemites. The rest of the land was to be divided into a Jewish and and an Arab state. This United Nations proposed a two state partition which was rejected by the Arabs resulting in several nations attacking Israel unsuccessfully and losing much of the contested land. Many Palestinians lived then and continue to live now as Jordanian citizens. In 1967 many countries again tried to destroy Israel and failed losing the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip and control of the West Bank, displacing many more Palestinians, most fleeing to Jordan. The largest number of Palestinians refugees moved to Jodan and make up 60% to more probably 80% of Jordanians even today. The Fatah of the PLO set up a state within a state inside Jordan, attempting with Syrian help to overthrow the government and tried several times to kill king Hussein of Jordan himself. Syria began invading Jordan (200 tanks "disguised" as PLO Army tanks?) but they turned back after Jordanian air force attacks (and the threat of other nations supporting Jordan-different countries tell different stories about this) and In 1970 King Hussein moved to crush Palestinian Organizations and restore monarchy rule. Thousands were killed, mostly Palestinians, chasing the PLO and many Palestinians out of Jordan into Lebanon. The PLO's instigated Jordanian civil war which resulted in the PLO being purged from Jordan is rarely mentioned but the effects still resonate in the Middle East. The cost of the failed attacks against Israel and the failed coup against the Jordanian Monarchy is still being paid by the Palestinians and that is not going to change. Elections have a price and so does failure in warfare. Israel is not going away and despite the currently weak support by the Obama administration for this Mid East democracy if threatened with extinction Israel has the ability to take much of the region down with them. Strengthening the enemies of Israel does not make the world safer. It would appear the real Palestinian state would be and has been the nation of Jordan except the ruling class of Hashemites of Jordan have successfully contested that claim.