...East Jerusalem, which his country had occupied…

...East Jerusalem, which his country had occupied two years earlier and which now becomes the united Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Although Israel and Britain have tacitly agreed to Abdullah keeping the area, the Arab countries and most of the world oppose the king's action; only Britain and Pakistan recognize the annexation.

The incorporation into Jordan of the West Bank, including some 400,000 Palestinians as well as a large refugee population that is hostile to the Hashemite regime, brings severe economic and political consequences.

On the other hand, Abdullah gains such Muslim shrines as the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, which compensate for his father's loss of Mecca and Medina to Ibn Sa'ud a generation earlier.