The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On February 20, 1928 AD, the British granted the status of 'protectorate' to Jordan – a state they had created in 1920 by the river of the same name, by dividing the historical land of Shaam in collaboration with the French, after defeating the Ottoman Empire in World War 1. The British installed in Jordan as king, Abdullah, the son of their agent, Sherif Hussain, the ruler of Hejaz, for his services to Britain during World War 1 against the Ottoman Turks.
Faisal, another son of Sherif Hussain, was installed as king in Baghdad in 1921 against the wishes of the Iraqi people after the British crushed the popular uprising led by Ayatollah Mirza Taqi Shirazi and Ayatollah Kashef al-Gheta. In the late 1920s when Sherif Hussain lost Hejaz, including the religious cities of Mecca and Medina, and the commercial centres of Jeddah and Ta'ef, to another British agent, Abdul-Aziz bid Saud and his Wahhabi brigands from Najd in the remote interior of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain bestowed upon the new strongman in 1932 another artificial country called Saudi Arabia.
As for Jordan, in 1946, a year after World War 2, the British granted it independence but continued to dictate orders before handing it over to the US which today exercises hegemony over this land. Jordan, like several other Arab states of West Asia, has no historical roots, and almost 80 percent of its population is made up of Palestinians. Actually, it is part of the historical land of Shaam which was carved up by the British and the French into Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine – where later in 1948 the British planted Israel after illegally settling on this Muslim land, hundreds of thousands of European Jews. Currently, mass demonstrations are rocking the Jordanian capital, Amman, and other cities, calling for reforms and scrapping of the monarchy because of its subservience to the US and treasonous ties with the illegal Zionist entity, Israel.