Editing Emirate of Transjordan (section)

===Establishment===
Abdullah established his government on 11 April 1921.<ref name="Bacik2008">{{cite book |author=Gökhan Bacik |title=Hybrid sovereignty in the Arab Middle East: the cases of Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKrAxzMDoywC&pg=PA76 |access-date=9 April 2011 |year=2008 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-230-60040-9 |page=76 |archive-date=22 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140622234051/http://books.google.com/books?id=HKrAxzMDoywC&pg=PA76 |url-status=live }}</ref> Britain administered the part west of the Jordan as Palestine, and the part east of the Jordan as Transjordan.<ref name="UN">[http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/2fca2c68106f11ab05256bcf007bf3cb!OpenDocument 12 August 1922] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080523184335/http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/2fca2c68106f11ab05256bcf007bf3cb!OpenDocument |date=23 May 2008 }} Britain is given the Mandate of the League of Nations to Administer Palestine.</ref> Technically they remained one mandate, but most official documents referred to them as if they were two separate mandates. The [[Constitution of Mandatory Palestine|Palestine Order in Council, 1922]], which established the legal basis for the Mandatory Government in Palestine, explicitly excluded Transjordan from its application apart from giving the High Commissioner some discretionary power there.<ref>Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, Extraordinary Issue, September 1, 1922, pages 11 and 16; [https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/C7AAE196F41AA055052565F50054E656 Clause 86] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321115605/https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/C7AAE196F41AA055052565F50054E656 |date=21 March 2019 }}.</ref> In April/May 1923 Transjordan was granted a degree of independence with Abdullah as ruler and [[St John Philby]] as chief representative.<ref>Avi Shlaim (2007) p 14.</ref>

The [[Hashemite]] [[emir]] [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah]], elder son of Britain's wartime Arab ally Hussein bin Ali, was placed on the throne of Transjordan. The applicable parts of the Mandate for Palestine were stated in a decision of 16 September 1922, which provided for the separate administration of Transjordan. The government of the territory was, subject to the mandate, formed by Abdullah, brother of King Faisal I of Iraq, who had been at Amman since February 1921. Britain recognized Transjordan as an independent government on 15 May 1923, and gradually relinquished control, limiting its oversight to financial, military and foreign policy matters. This affected the goals of [[Revisionist Zionism]], which sought a state on both banks of the Jordan. The movement claimed that it effectively severed Transjordan from Palestine, and so reduced the area on which a future Jewish state in the region could be established.{{sfn|Wasserstein|2008}}<ref name="MakingofJordan">{{cite web |url=http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html |title=Jordan – History – The Making of Transjordan |first=Business Optimization Consultants |last=B.O.C. |access-date=1 March 2003 |archive-date=21 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921111449/http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_transjordan.html |url-status=live }}</ref>