ABSTRACT
Manoeuvred out of the picture during the late 1930s, with no effective recognized leadership to guide them and more internally divided than ever before, the scattered Palestinians were given no real choice as to their political fate after the 1948 war ended. Those who became part of the extended Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan, both refugees and non-refugees, were granted Jordanian citizenship by the monarch, who managed to neutralize any internal or external opposition he confronted. Many refugees willingly took part in the offered process of integration, voting and being elected to Parliament, serving in the rapidly expanding Jordanian administration, and in effect carrying out the policy which aimed at thwarting any Palestinian, or for that matter, refugee political separateness. The young generation born mostly outside Palestine was to develop its Palestinian orientation in a completely different and far more militant way than that of its parents.
