between the West Bank of Jordan and East Jordan was something that came about not by occupation of a foreign country but by the constitutional democratic expression of will, at the request of the people in that area and in defence of their own national existence. It is enough to mention a few Arab names in this connexion. These areas were taken over by Israel not when Jordan attacked or when Jordan entered the area in 1948 but before that: Qazaza, Haifa, Salameh, Bir Adas, Kanna, Deir Yassin, Lejun, Tiberias, Jerusalem, Jaffa and then West Jerusalem. 157. How can the Israeli representative claim any posses- sion over Jerusalem, when physically the Arab population of Jerusalem in 1948 owned 82 per cent of the whole city? And even the reduction in ownership came as a result of that artificial injection of an alien body throughout the mandatory period. 158. However, I need not defend the unity of the people of the two Banks of Jordan. It is no wonder that Mr. Tekoah refers to this as occupation, That is a projection of Israel’s own designs. When the people of East and West Jordan decided in 1949, through a democratic and constitu- tional process, to join an equal and constitutional partner- ship, they were only expressing an objective human, cultural and geographic reality; they were defending them- selves. 1.59. With regard to Israel’s intentions towards Jordan and the long years in which Israel chose to have a quiet and friendly relationship with Jordan, I need mention only several names, Qibya was not an attack by Jordan against Israel: it was an attack by Israel against Jordan. So was Nahalin; so was Samu’; and, of course, so was the massive attack of 1967. Our record in the West Bank and in the 
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