The Arab Legion, six thousand strong, is…

The Arab Legion, six thousand strong, is the only Arab army that has been able to retain any Palestinian territory against the Israelis.

Transjordan at the end of the war occupies the West Bank of the Jordan, which is much of the area assigned by the UN to the stillborn Palestinian state, and more than six hundred thousand Arab refugees have fled their homes in an exodus that had begun even before May 1948.