Jordan revoked thousands of passports issued to Palestinians who settled there after 1948. Jordan’s core Bedouin tribes are threatened by the Palestinian majority, which is striving to achieve dominance by democratic means. Jordan, accordingly, has no qualms about refusing to grant its Palestinians basic political rights.
Jordan periodically strips some thousands of Palestinians of citizenship. The largest such revocation affected hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank.
But Israel is afraid to strip her Palestinians of their citizenship.



