ABSTRACT
The Jordan River has been marked by conflict between the countries on its banks —Israel on one hand, and Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority on the other. The Arab states resented the United Kingdom’s 1917 Balfour Declaration supporting the establishment of a national home for the Jews in Palestine. 1 The League of Nations granted Great Britain a mandate over Palestine and empowered it to implement the pledge made in the Balfour Declaration. Arab resentment developed into violent conflict in Palestine in the late 1920s.
