Originally Posted by eyeball

The whole purpose of the war of 1970-71 in Jordan was to get rid of them.



Not at all. Jordan's King Hussein wanted to get rid of the PLO, and that's what the fighting was all about.

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According to UNRWA, Jordan was home to 1,951,603 Palestinian refugees in 2008, most of them Jordanian citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan#Demographics


Jordan has about 8 million people, so nearly quarter of Jordan's population are Palestinians with Jordanian citizenship.

Edited to correct last paragraph.

Last edited by tjm10025; 07/17/14.